Presentation of the fundamental groups of complements of shadows (Q6150787)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7814243
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Presentation of the fundamental groups of complements of shadows (English)
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7 March 2024
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Summary: A shadowed polyhedron is a simple polyhedron equipped with half integers on regions, called gleams, which represents a compact, oriented, smooth 4-manifold. The polyhedron is embedded in the 4-manifold and it is called a \textit{shadow} of that manifold. A subpolyhedron of a shadow represents a possibly singular subsurface in the 4-manifold. In this paper, we focus on contractible shadows obtained from the unit disk by attaching annuli along generically immersed closed curves on the disk. In this case, the 4-manifold is always a 4-ball. Milnor fibers of plane curve singularities and complexified real line arrangements can be represented in this way. We give a presentation of the fundamental group of the complement of a subpolyhedron of such a shadow in the 4-ball. The method is very similar to the Wirtinger presentation of links in knot theory. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1519.57002].
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shadow
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fundamental group
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divide
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plane curve singularity
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complexified real line arrangement
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