On the Fundamental Group of the Complement of a Node Curve
On the Fundamental Group of the Complement of a Node Curve
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论节点曲线补集的基本群
DOI:
10.2307/1971204
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发表时间:
1980
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4.9
通讯作者:
W. Fulton
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作者:
W. Fulton
where dl, * dt are the degrees of the irreducible components of C, would follow if one knew that the intersection of all subgroups of finite index in r(P 2C) were trivial. Zariski's original goal of determining all finite coverings of P2 C follows from the theorem stated here: the profinite completions of the displayed groups are the same, and similarly for the tame fundamental group and the prime-to-p completion in characteristic p (cf. [11, [31). The theorem also implies the same conclusion for a hypersurface in PI whose generic plane sections are node curves. Zariski's proof relied on the assertion of Enriques and Severi that any node curve can be degenerated to lines in general position. This assertion remains unproved, however. Abhyankar has proved many special cases of this result. A recent strengthening of Bertini's connectedness theorem, proved jointly with J. Hansen [21, yields a lemma which completes Abhyankar's beautiful argument. Let f: X -+ Y be a finite morphism of projective surfaces over an algebraically closed field, with Y non-singular and X normal. Assume f is a