Variations on van Kampen's method

DOI10.1007/S10958-005-0260-6MaRDI QIDQ997803zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Bessis

Publication date 7 August 2007

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

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

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)

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).

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Uses Software

• GAP
• VKCURVE

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