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Zariski Hyperplane Section Theorem for Grassmannian Varieties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Ichiro Shimada*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan, email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Let $\phi :\,X\,\to \,M$ be a morphism from a smooth irreducible complex quasi-projective variety $X$ to a Grassmannian variety $M$ such that the image is of dimension ≥ 2. Let $D$ be a reduced hypersurface in $M$, and $\gamma $ a general linear automorphism of $M$. We show that, under a certain differential-geometric condition on $\phi (X)$ and $D$, the fundamental group ${{\text{ }\!\!\pi\!\!\text{ }}_{1}}\left( {{\left( \gamma \,o\,\phi \right)}^{-1}}\,\left( M\,\backslash \,D \right) \right)$ is isomorphic to a central extension of ${{\pi }_{1}}\left( M\,\backslash \,D \right)\,\,\times \,{{\pi }_{1}}\left( X \right)$ by the cokernel of ${{\pi }_{2}}\left( \phi \right)\,:\,{{\pi }_{2}}\left( X \right)\,\to {{\pi }_{2}}\left( M \right)$.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2003

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