Über die Fundamentalgruppen Siegelscher Modulvarietäten vom Grade 2. (On the fundamental groups of Siegel modular varieties of degree 2.) (Q1078275)

We show by toroidal methods that Igusa's desingularisation (and hence any desingularisation) of Satake's compactification of \(S_ 2/\Gamma_ 2(n)\) is simply-connected for \(n\geq 2\). Here \(S_ 2\) is Siegel's upper half plane of degree 2 and \(\Gamma_ 2(n)\) the congruence subgroup of level n in \(SP_ n{\mathbb{Z}}\).