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FUNDAMENTAL GROUP FOR SOME CUSPIDAL CURVES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1999

JOSÉ IGNACIO COGOLLUDO
Affiliation:
Departamento de Álgebra, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Av. Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain Current address: Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 S. Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60607-7045, USA.
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Abstract

In [1], Hirano gives a method for constructing families of curves with a large number of singularities. The idea is to consider an abelian covering of ℙ2 ramified along three lines in general position, and to take the pull-back of a curve C intersecting the lines non-generically. Similar constructions are used by Shimada in [10] and Oka in [8]. We apply this method for the case where C is a conic, constructing a family of curves with the following asymptotic behaviour (see [9]):

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The goal of this paper is to calculate the fundamental group for the curves in this family as well as their Alexander polynomial.

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Notes and Papers
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© The London Mathematical Society 1999

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