Failure of Lefschetz hyperplane theorem

Publication date 12 January 2023

Transcendental methods, Hodge theory (algebro-geometric aspects) (14C30) Mixed Hodge theory of singular varieties (complex-analytic aspects) (32S35) Topological aspects of complex singularities: Lefschetz theorems, topological classification, invariants (32S50)

Abstract: In this article, we give a counterexample to the Lefschetz hyperplane theorem for non-singular quasi-projective varieties. A classical result of Hamm-L^{e} shows that Lefschetz hyperplane theorem can hold for hyperplanes in general position. We observe that the condition of ``hyperplane is strict in the sense that it is not possible to replace it by higher degree hypersurfaces. The counterexample is very simple: projective space minus finitely many points. Moreover, as an intermediate step we prove that the Grothendieck-Lefschetz theorem also fails in the quasi-projective case.

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