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All Autoequivalences are Spherical Twists

All Autoequivalences are Spherical Twists

In this short note, we observe that, for purely formal reasons, any autoequivalence can be constructed as a twist around a spherical functor. As an example, we show how the P-twists constructed by Huybrechts and Thomas can be formulated as spherical twists.