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Stability conditions on surfaces and contractions of curves

Nicolás Vilches
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We study Bridgeland stability conditions on smooth surfaces arising from birational morphisms $S \to T$ to a singular surface. Assuming that $T$ has only ADE singularities or certain cyclic quotient singularities, we produce pre-stability conditions on $S$ whose central charges depend on the pullback of an ample divisor on $T$. Moreover, we prove the support property for the cyclic quotient case (including the $A_n$ singularities). These stability conditions arise as limits of the Arcara-Bertram stability conditions on $S$. In a complementary direction, we study birational maps $S \to T$ for which a stability condition $S$ can be obtained using the pullback of an ample class on $T$. We prove that the morphism cannot contract smooth curves of positive genus.

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Nicolás Vilches. 2025-08-09. Stability conditions on surfaces and contractions of curves. https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07019

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