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Simpson's construction of varieties with many local systems

Algebraic Geometry 2016-10-04 v1

Abstract

The purpose of this largely expository note is to give some examples of smooth projective varieties with zero first Betti number but nontrivial families of local systems of higher ranks. The most interesting examples are due to Simpson.

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@article{arxiv.1610.00205,
  title  = {Simpson's construction of varieties with many local systems},
  author = {Donu Arapura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.00205},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

This will appear in the proceedings of Zucker's birthday conference