Complex projective surfaces and infinite groups

DOI10.1007/S000390050055MaRDI QIDQ1386747zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fedor Bogomolov, Ludmil Katzarkov

Publication date 3 August 1998

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9703002

zbMATH Keywords

surfacescoveringfundamental groupShafarevich conjecturecurves over a curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coverings in algebraic geometry (14E20) Homotopy theory and fundamental groups in algebraic geometry (14F35) Rational and ruled surfaces (14J26) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34)

Abstract: The paper contains a general construction which produces new examples of non simply-connected smooth projective surfaces. We analyze the resulting surfaces and their fundamental groups. Many of these fundamental groups are expected to be non-residually finite. Using the construction we also suggest a series of potential counterexamples to the Shafarevich conjecture which claims that the universal covering of smooth projective variety is holomorphically convex. The examples are only potential since they depend on group theoretic questions, which we formulate, but we do not know how to answer. At the end we formulate an arithmetic version of the Shafarevich conjecture.

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