Fundamental groups of rationally connected varieties.

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1030132724MaRDI QIDQ5954567zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors János Kollár

Publication date 4 February 2002

Published in Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0003138

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rationality questions in algebraic geometry (14E08) Homotopy theory and fundamental groups in algebraic geometry (14F35) Fano varieties (14J45)

Abstract: Let U be an open subset of a unirational variety. We prove that there is rational curve C in U such that the fundamental group of C surjects onto the fundamental group of U. As a consequence we obtain new proofs of the theorems of Harbater and Colliot-Th'el`ene on Galois covers and torsors over the p-adic line. We also obtain examples of pencils of curves of genus <14 whose monodromy group is the full Teichm"uller group.

Review text

The notion of a rationally connected variety was introduced by the author, \textit{Y. Miyaoka} and \textit{S. Mori} [J. Algebr. Geom. 1, 429--448 (1992; Zbl 0780.14026)] and says that any two points of a proper variety \(X\) over a field of characteristic \(0\) are in the image of an appropriate morphism \(f:\mathbb{P}^1\to X\).NEWLINENEWLINEBy a result of \textit{J.-P. Serre} [J. Lond. Math. Soc. 34, 481--484 (1959; Zbl 0097.36301)], it turns out that NEWLINErationally connected varieties are simply connected. In the paper under review, the author investigates the more sophisticated problemNEWLINEof the fundamental groups of open subsets in a rationally connected variety. The main result is the followingNEWLINENEWLINETheorem. Let \(X\) be a smooth projective rationally connected variety \(X\) over an algebraically closed field of characteristic \(0\), let \(U\subset X\) be an open subset, NEWLINEand let \(x_0\in U\) be a point. Then there is an open subset \(0\in V\subset {\mathbb{A}}^1\) and a morphism \(f: V\to U\) such that \(f(0)=x_0\), and \(\pi_1(V,0)\to\pi_1(U,x_0)\) is surjective.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE Several applications to \(p\)-adic fields and the image of the monodromy representations for the moduli space of genus \(g\) curvesNEWLINE(which is known to be unirational for \(2\leq g \leq 13\)) are given.

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