Alexander Polynomials: Essential Variables and Multiplicities

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNM119MaRDI QIDQ3516018zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexandru Dimca, Ştefan Papadima, Alexander I. Suciu

Publication date 30 July 2008

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.2499

zbMATH Keywords

Alexander polynomialcomplex varietyfundamental groupquasi-projective groupquasi-projective varietySeifert link

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vanishing theorems in algebraic geometry (14F17) Global theory of complex singularities; cohomological properties (32S20) Relations with arrangements of hyperplanes (32S22) Mixed Hodge theory of singular varieties (complex-analytic aspects) (32S35) Stratifications; constructible sheaves; intersection cohomology (complex-analytic aspects) (32S60)

Abstract: We explore the codimension one strata in the degree-one cohomology jumping loci of a finitely generated group, through the prism of the multivariable Alexander polynomial. As an application, we give new criteria that must be satisfied by fundamental groups of smooth, quasi-projective complex varieties. These criteria establish precisely which fundamental groups of boundary manifolds of complex line arrangements are quasi-projective. We also give sharp upper bounds for the twisted Betti ranks of a group, in terms of multiplicities constructed from the Alexander polynomial. For Seifert links in homology 3-spheres, these bounds become equalities, and our formula shows explicitly how the Alexander polynomial determines all the characteristic varieties.

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