Simple connectedness of projective varieties

Cutkosky, Steven

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03658-7

Simple connectedness of projective varieties
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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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