Zariski-van Kampen theorem for higher homotopy groups
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This paper gives an extension of the classical Zariski-van Kampen theorem describing the fundamental groups of the complements of plane singular curves by generators and relations. It provides a procedure for computation of the first non-trivial higher homotopy groups of the complements of singular projective hypersurfaces in terms of the homotopy variation operators introduced here.
37 pages, LaTeX2e with amsmath, amsthm and amscd packages. To appear in J. Inst. Math. Jussieu (2003) with the first proof of Theorem 7.1 significantly developped and new references added. Due to copyright restrictions, this final version will only be available at Cambridge Journals Online (http://journals.cambridge.org) when published. Thus the content of the paper here is the same as that of version 1 of 3 March 2002
37 pages, LaTeX2e with amsmath, amsthm and amscd packages. To appear in J. Inst. Math. Jussieu (2003) with the first proof of Theorem 7.1 significantly developped and new references added. Due to copyright restrictions, this final version will only be available at Cambridge Journals Online (http://journals.cambridge.org) when published. Thus the content of the paper here is the same as that of version 1 of 3 March 2002