On the fundamental groups of normal varieties

DOI10.1142/S0219199715500650MaRDI QIDQ2809267zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Donu Arapura, Alexandru Dimca, Richard Hain

Publication date 27 May 2016

Published in Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.1483

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic varietiesfundamental groupslocal systemsMalcev Lie algebras, Hodge structurenormal varietiesresonance varietiestwisted cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Transcendental methods, Hodge theory (algebro-geometric aspects) (14C30) Homotopy theory and fundamental groups in algebraic geometry (14F35) Mixed Hodge theory of singular varieties (complex-analytic aspects) (32S35) Homology with local coefficients, equivariant cohomology (55N25) Hodge theory in global analysis (58A14)

Abstract: We show that the fundamental groups of normal complex algebraic varieties share many properties of the fundamental groups of smooth varieties. The jump loci of rank one local systems on a normal variety are related to the jump loci of a resolution and of a smoothing of this variety.

Review text

The goal of the paper under review is ``to give some evidence that the fundamental groups of normal varieties behave like those of smooth varieties. In particular, the authors generalize a main theorem from [\textit{D. Arapura}, J. Algebr. Geom. 6, No. 3, 563--597 (1997; Zbl 0923.14010)] and describe the jump loci phenomenon of rank one local systems on an irreducible normal variety \(X\) using the resonance and characteristic varieties of \(X\) and its resolution [\textit{A. Dimca} et al., Duke Math. J. 148, No. 3, 405--457 (2009; Zbl 1222.14035)]. They also give a detail proof of the well-known Deligne's statement that Morgan's theorem holds for normal varieties, obtain an analog of Theorem 11.7 [loc. cit.] concerning conditions under which a right-angled Artin group is the fundamental group of a normal variety, etc. In conclusion the authors remark that ``it would be interesting to find an example of a group which is the fundamental group of a normal variety but not the fundamental group of a smooth variety.

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