Retraction of the complement of smooth projective curves to a $2$-dimensional $\Delta$-complex

E. Artal, A. Larraya Sancho, M. A. Marco Buzunariz

Due to a result by Andreotti and Frankel \cite{andreotti1959}, it can be seen that the complement of a complex projective curve has the homotopy type of a $2$-dimensional CW comple…