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A general Seifert-van Kampen theorem for algebraic fundamental groups (English)
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1 February 2007
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A Seifert-Van Kampen theorem describes the fundamental group of a space in terms of the fundamental groups of the constituents of a covering and the configuration of connected components of the covering. Here the author provides the combinatorial part of such a theorem for the most general sort of coverings. Hence a Seifert-Van Kampen theorem is reduced to a purely geometric statement of effective descent. Most of the paper is in the set-up of algebraic fundamental groups of schemes, but the classical case is covered. Examples are in number theory, rigid and formal geometry and in logarithmic geometry.
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logarithmic fundamental group
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effective descent
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algebraic fundamental group
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