{ "id": "1512.08839", "version": "v1", "published": "2015-12-30T04:00:51.000Z", "updated": "2015-12-30T04:00:51.000Z", "title": "Fundamental Group of some Genus-2 Fibrations and Applications", "authors": [ "R. V. Gurjar", "Sagar Kolte" ], "comment": "23 Pages, Published in the International Journal of Mathematics", "doi": "10.1142/S0129167X12500802", "categories": [ "math.AG" ], "abstract": "We will prove that given a genus-2 fibration $f: X \\rightarrow C$ on a smooth projective surface $X$ such that $b_1(X)=b_1(C)+2$, the fundamental group of $X$ is almost isomorphic to $\\pi_1(C) \\times \\pi_1(E)$, where $E$ is an elliptic curve. We will also verify the Shafarevich Conjecture on holomorphic convexity of the universal cover of surfaces $X$ with genus-2 fibration $X\\rightarrow C$ such that $b_1(X)>b_1(C)$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2015-12-30T04:00:51.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "14F35", "14H30" ], "keywords": [ "fundamental group", "applications", "universal cover", "smooth projective surface", "holomorphic convexity" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "World Scientific" }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 23, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2015arXiv151208839G" } } }