Counterexamples to the complement problem (Q2337227)

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    Counterexamples to the complement problem (English)
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    19 November 2019
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    Summary: We provide explicit counterexamples to the so-called Complement Problem in every dimension \(n\geq 3\), i.e. pairs of nonisomorphic irreducible algebraic hypersurfaces \(H_1, H_2 \subset \mathbb{C}^n\) whose complements \(\mathbb{C}^n \setminus H_1\) and \(\mathbb{C}^n \setminus H_2\) are isomorphic. Since we can arrange that one of the hypersurfaces is singular whereas the other is smooth, we also have counterexamples in the analytic setting.
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    affine algebraic geometry
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    complements of hypersurfaces
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    Danielewski surfaces
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