The fundamental group of a CP^2 complement of a branch curve as an extension of a solvable group by a symmetric group

DOI10.1007/S002080050284MaRDI QIDQ1298181zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mina Teicher

Publication date 28 February 2000

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9811111

zbMATH Keywords

complement of branch curvessolvable fundamental groupsolvable groupsVeronese embeddingVeronese surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy theory and fundamental groups in algebraic geometry (14F35) Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30) Solvable groups, supersolvable groups (20F16)

Abstract: The main result in this paper is as follows: Let S be the branch curve (in the projective plan) of a generic projection of a Veronese surface. Then the fundamental group of the complement of S is an extension of a solvable group by a symmetric group. A group with the property mentioned above is ``almost solvable in the sense that it contains a solvable normal subgroup of finite index. This raises the question for which families of simply connected algebraic surfaces of general type is the fundamental group of the complement of the branch curve of a generic projection to the complex plane an extension of a solvable group by a symmetric group?

Review text

In this paper, the author studies the fundamental group of the complement in \({\mathbb P}^2\) of the branch curve of a generic projection of a Veronese surface, and proves that it is almost solvable, i.e. it contains a normal solvable group of finite order. More precisely, it is the extension of a solvable group by a symmetric group. The author poses the interesting question: ``For which families of simply connected algebraic surfaces of general type is the fundamental group of the complement of the branch curve of a generic projection to \({\mathbb P}^2\) an extension of a solvable group by a symmetric group? Almost solvability results in the affine case were obtained by \textit{B. Moishezon} and \textit{M. Teicher} [Proc. Hirzebruch 65 Conf. Algebraic Geometry, Isr. Mat. Conf. Proc. 9, 329-345 (1996; Zbl 0863.14010)]. The proof is carried out completely only for the Veronese embedding of degree 3; in higher degree the result is only stated. In all the cases the author writes in fact completely the ``series for the solvable subgroups.

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