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Abelian coverings of the complex projective plane branched along configurations of real lines

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Eriko Hironaka

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 1993; Volume 105, Number 502
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-2564-8 (print); 978-1-4704-0079-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0502
MathSciNet review: 1164128
MSC: Primary 14H30; Secondary 14J25

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • Introduction
  • I. Preliminaries
  • II. Intersections of curves on covering surfaces
  • III. Hirzebruch covering surfaces
  • IV. Algorithm for computing the first Betti number
  • V. Examples