On the fundamental group of real toric varieties (Q1431069)

The paper refers to the problems of algebraic geometry. The subject of study is the complex toric variety of \(X(\Delta)\) associated to a smooth fan \(\Delta\). The fundamental group of \(X(\Delta)\) and the universal cover of \(X(\Delta)\) are decribed in terms of the fan with reference to the motivation in the paper [\textit{M. W. Davis} and \textit{T. Januskiewicz}, Duke Math. J. 62, No. 2, 417--451 (1991; Zbl 0733.52006)]. Necessary and sufficient conditions on \(\Delta\) are given under which \(X(\Delta),\pi_1(X(\Delta))\) are aspherical or abelian, respectively. Among the areas examined there are also conditions necessary and sufficient for the \(C_\Delta\) to be a \(K(\pi,1)\) space, whereas \(C_\Delta\) is the complement of a real subspace arrangement associated to \(\Delta\).