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Fundamental groups of proper varieties are finitely presented

Algebraic Geometry 2023-05-29 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

It was recently proven by Esnault, Shusterman and the second named author, that the \'etale fundamental group of a connected smooth projective variety over an algebraically closed field kk is finitely presented. In this note, we extend this result to all connected proper schemes over kk.

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@article{arxiv.2303.11161,
  title  = {Fundamental groups of proper varieties are finitely presented},
  author = {Marcin Lara and Vasudevan Srinivas and Jakob Stix},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.11161},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Final version, accepted for publication in Comptes Rendus Math\'ematique, https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/mathematique. Besides various minor improvements, a new section "More general base fields" was added