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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
András Némethi
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Department of Mathematics, INCREST, 79622 Bucharest, Romania
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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 = X ∩ H1 ∩ … ∩ Hn−2, where

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

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 102 , Issue 3 , November 1987 , pp. 453 - 457
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1987

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