The fundamental group of the complement of the branch curve of T times T in C^2.pdfVIP

THE FUNDAMENTAL GROUP OF THE COMPLEMENT OF THE BRANCH CURVE OF T × T IN C2 MEIRAV AMRAM AND MINA TEICHER 2 0 0 Abstract. This paper is the second in a series of three papers concerning the surface T ×T , 2 where T is a complex torus. We compute the fundamental group of the branch curve of the l 2 u surface in C , using the van Kampen Theorem and the braid monodromy factorization of J the curve. 9 2 ] G A 1. Background . h t The concentration on the fundamental group of a complement of a branch curve of an a 2 m algebraic surface X with respect to a generic projection onto CP , leads us to the computation [ of π (X ) the fundamental group of the Galois cover of X with respect to this generic 1 1 Gal v projection. Galois covers are surfaces of a general type. 7 7 Bogomolov conjectured that the Galois covers corresponding to generic projections of 2 7 2 0 algebraic surfaces to CP have infinite fundamental groups. 2 In [7] we justify Bogomolov’s conjecture by proving that π (T ×T ) is an infinite group. 0 1 Gal / h In order to compute π (T ×T ) , we have to enclode the braid monodromy factorization 1 Gal t a m of the branch curve S of T × T . Then we have to apply the van Kampen Theorem on the : factors in the factorization in order to get relations for π (C2 − S, ∗) the fundamental gro