Variations on van Kampen's method

DOI10.1007/S10958-005-0260-6zbMATH Open1121.57002arXivmath/0301327OpenAlexW2062966189MaRDI QIDQ997803FDOQ997803

Authors: David Bessis 

Publication date: 7 August 2007

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a detailed account of the classical Van Kampen method for computing presentations of fundamental groups of complements of complex algebraic curves, and of a variant of this method, working with arbitrary projections (even with vertical asymptotes).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0301327

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zbMATH Keywords

generic projectionrepresentations of fundamental groupscomplements of complex algebraic curvesVKCURVE

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to algebraic topology (55-04) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Homotopy groups of wedges, joins, and simple spaces (55Q20)

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• Zariski theorems and diagrams for braid groups.
• Fundamental group of plane curves and related invariants

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Uses Software

• GAP
• VKCURVE

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