Author: Eriko Hironaka
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 082182564X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
This work studies abelian branched coverings of smooth complex projective surfaces from the topological viewpoint. Geometric information about the coverings (such as the first Betti numbers of a smooth model or intersections of embedded curves) is related to topological and combinatorial information about the base space and branch locus. Special attention is given to examples in which the base space is the complex projective plane and the branch locus is a configuration of lines.