The fundamental group of generic polynomials

DOI10.1016/0040-9383(91)90044-5MaRDI QIDQ1184329zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fabrizio Catanese, Bronisław Wajnryb

Publication date 28 June 1992

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(91)90044-5

zbMATH Keywords

Artin braid groupfundamental group of the space of generic complex polynomials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Homotopy groups of special spaces (55Q52) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Review text

In the main theorem of this interesting short paper, the authors compute the fundamental group of the space of generic complex polynomials in one variable of degree exactly \((n+1)\). A map \(P: \mathbb{C}\to\mathbb{C}\), given by a polynomial of degree \((n+1)\), is called generic if the derivative map \(P'\) has \(n\) distinct roots and the respective branch points (the image points of the roots) are also distinct. The fundamental group in question is a direct product \(\mathbb{Z}\times H_ n\) and occurs also as a central extension of the integers \(\mathbb{Z}\) by a group \(G_ n\), where \(H_ n\subset G_ n\) are subgroups of the Artin braid group on \(n\) strings.

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