Tame coverings and fundamental groups of algebraic varieties: Part I: Branch loci with normal crossings; applications: theorems of Zariski and Picard
Tame coverings and fundamental groups of algebraic varieties: Part I: Branch loci with normal crossings; applications: theorems of Zariski and Picard
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代数簇的驯服覆盖和基本群:第一部分:具有正常交叉的分支轨迹;
DOI:
10.2307/2372850
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发表时间:
1959
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
S. Abhyankar
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作者:
S. Abhyankar
Introduction. In this paper, we shall study the fundamental group of an algebraic variety V minus a subvariety W over an arbitrary ground field, the classical case being subsumed as a special case. This will be done via first studying finite alegbraic coverings of v with branch loci contained in W. Here in the introduction, we shall only approximately describe the situation and indicate some of the results. The finite galois groups over V of all tame (for definition see Section 2) finite galois coverings of V-isomorphic coverings being identified-with branch loci contained in W form an inverse system &'(V-W) of a special kind which we shall call a group tower. A group G is said to be a weak parent group of a group tower xr if G can be topologized so that the group tower of all continuous finite homomorphic images of G is isomorphic to 7r; if 7r is isomorphic to the group tower of all finite homomorphic images of G (i.e. if G is regarded as a discrete group), then G is said to be a parent group of 7r.1 The possible existence of a finitely generated parent group (or somewhat weaker: the possible existence of a finitely generated weak parent group) of r'(V -W) is the abstract analogue of the statement (Section 16) that in the classical case the topological fundamental group sr1(VW) is finitely generated; and hence if such a finitely generated parent (respectively, weak parent) group exists, we shall call it a tame fundamental parent (respectively, weak parent) group of V -W. Now one main result of this paper (Section 12) is that if V is nonsingular and simply connected, if W has only normal crossings and if the irreducible components of W move in linear systems of dimension greater than one, then denoting the number of these