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On the fundamental group of the complement of certain singular plane curves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

András Némethi
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, INCREST, 79622 Bucharest, Romania

Extract

Let C be a complex algebraic curve in the projective space ℙ2. The purpose of this paper is to calculate the fundamental group G of the complement of C in the case when C = XH1 ∩ … ∩ Hn−2, where

and Hi are generic hyperplanes (i = 1, … n − 2).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1987

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