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Main Authors: Cogolludo-Agustín, José I., Elduque, Eva
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10508
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author Cogolludo-Agustín, José I.
Elduque, Eva
author_facet Cogolludo-Agustín, José I.
Elduque, Eva
contents Given a connected dense Zariski open set of a compact Kähler manifold $U$, we address the general problem of the existence of surjective holomorphic maps ${F:U\to C}$ to smooth complex quasi-projective curves from properties of $π_1(U)$. It is known that, if such $F$ exists, then there exists a finitely generated normal subgroup $K\trianglelefteqπ_1(U)$ such that $π_1(U)/K$ is isomorphic to a curve orbifold group $G$ (i.e. the orbifold fundamental group of a smooth complex quasi-projective curve endowed with an orbifold structure). In this paper, we address the converse of that statement in the case where the orbifold Euler characteristic of $G$ is negative, finding a (unique) surjective holomorphic map $F:U\to C$ which realizes the quotient $π_1(U)\twoheadrightarrow π_1(U)/K\cong G$ at the level of (orbifold) fundamental groups. We also prove that our theorem is sharp, meaning that the result does not hold for any curve orbifold group with non-negative orbifold Euler characteristic. Furthermore, we apply our main theorem to address Serre's question of which orbifold fundamental groups of smooth quasi-projective curves can be realized as fundamental groups of complements of curves in $\mathbb{P}^2$.
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spellingShingle Geometric realizability of epimorphisms to curve orbifold groups
Cogolludo-Agustín, José I.
Elduque, Eva
Algebraic Geometry
Given a connected dense Zariski open set of a compact Kähler manifold $U$, we address the general problem of the existence of surjective holomorphic maps ${F:U\to C}$ to smooth complex quasi-projective curves from properties of $π_1(U)$. It is known that, if such $F$ exists, then there exists a finitely generated normal subgroup $K\trianglelefteqπ_1(U)$ such that $π_1(U)/K$ is isomorphic to a curve orbifold group $G$ (i.e. the orbifold fundamental group of a smooth complex quasi-projective curve endowed with an orbifold structure). In this paper, we address the converse of that statement in the case where the orbifold Euler characteristic of $G$ is negative, finding a (unique) surjective holomorphic map $F:U\to C$ which realizes the quotient $π_1(U)\twoheadrightarrow π_1(U)/K\cong G$ at the level of (orbifold) fundamental groups. We also prove that our theorem is sharp, meaning that the result does not hold for any curve orbifold group with non-negative orbifold Euler characteristic. Furthermore, we apply our main theorem to address Serre's question of which orbifold fundamental groups of smooth quasi-projective curves can be realized as fundamental groups of complements of curves in $\mathbb{P}^2$.
title Geometric realizability of epimorphisms to curve orbifold groups
topic Algebraic Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10508