Scalar extensions of derived categories and non-Fourier-Mukai functors

Abstract

Orlov's famous representability theorem asserts that any fully faithful exact functor between the bounded derived categories of coherent sheaves on smooth projective varieties is a Fourier Mukai functor. This result has been extended by Lunts and Orlov to include functors from perfect complexes to quasicoherent complexes. In this paper we show that the latter extension is false without the full faithfulness hypothesis. Our results are based on the properties of scalar extensions of derived categories, whose investigation was started by Pawel Sosna and the first author. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.