Botong Wang

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math.AG2024

Deformation Openness of Big Fundamental Groups and Applications

Ya Deng, Chikako Mese, Botong Wang

In 2001, de Oliveira, Katzarkov, and Ramachandran conjectured that the property of smooth projective varieties having big fundamental groups is stable under small deformations. Thi…

math.AG2024

Linear Chern-Hopf-Thurston conjecture

Ya Deng, Botong Wang

If $X$ is a closed $2 n$ -dimensional aspherical manifold, i.e., the universal cover of $X$ is contractible, then the Chern-Hopf-Thurston conjecture predicts that $(- 1)^{n} I ¨ (X) \geq 0$ …