Dirichlet fundamental domains and topology of projective varieties.

DOI10.1007/S00222-013-0453-4MaRDI QIDQ2435147zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Kapovich

Publication date 3 February 2014

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.3129

zbMATH Keywords

singularitiesfundamental groupsfinitely presented groupsnormal crossingsirreducible complex projective varietiesWhitney umbrellas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Homotopy theory and fundamental groups in algebraic geometry (14F35) Singularities of surfaces or higher-dimensional varieties (14J17) Geometric group theory (20F65) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Abstract: We prove that for every finitely-presented group G there exists a 2-dimensional irreducible complex-projective variety W with the fundamental group G, so that all singularities of W are normal crossings and Whitney umbrellas.

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