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Simple connectedness of projective varieties

Author(s): Steven Dale Cutkosky
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 679-684.
MSC (1991): Primary 14F35, 14E20
MathSciNet review: 1363453
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Abstract: A Lefschetz type theorem is proven relating the algebraic fundamental group of a smooth projective variety $X$ to the algebraic fundamental group of a subvariety set theoretically defined by $\le \dim (X)-2$ forms.

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