Etale covers of Kawamata log terminal spaces and their smooth loci
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Publication:6239443
arXiv1302.1655MaRDI QIDQ6239443FDOQ6239443
Authors: Daniel Greb, Stefan Kebekus, Thomas Peternell 
Publication date: 7 February 2013
Abstract: Working with a singular variety X, one is often interested in comparing the set of etale covers of X with that of its smooth locus X_reg. More precisely, one may ask: What are the obstructions to extend finite etale covers of X_reg to all of X? How do the etale fundamental groups of X and of its smooth locus compare? For projective varieties with Kawamata log terminal (klt) singularities we answer these questions in part. The main result of this paper asserts that there are no infinite towers of finite morphisms over a klt base variety where all morphisms are etale in codimension one, but branched over a small set. In a certain sense, this result can be seen as saying that the difference between the etale covers of X and those of X_reg is finite if X is klt. As an immediate application, we construct a finite covering Y of X, etale in codimension one, such that the etale fundamental groups of Y and Y_reg agree.
Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Minimal model program (Mori theory, extremal rays) (14E30) Singularities of surfaces or higher-dimensional varieties (14J17) Local structure of morphisms in algebraic geometry: étale, flat, etc. (14B25)
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