Cohomological stabilization, perverse filtrations, and refined BPS invariants for del Pezzo surfaces

Abstract: We prove an asymptotic product formula for the refined BPS invariants associated with a local del Pezzo surface. Our formula governs the cohomological stabilization of the perverse filtration on the intersection cohomology of the moduli space of 1-dimensional semistable sheaves on a del Pezzo surface. Combined with the theory of Fourier transform of Maulik--Shen--Yin, we show that the perverse filtration matches asymptotically with the Chern filtration defined via tautological classes. In the case of the projective plane, our results resolve conjectures of Kononov--Pi--Shen.