This paper dualizes the setting of affine spaces as originally introduced by Diers for application to algebraic geometry and expanded upon by various authors, to show that the fundamental groups of pointed topological spaces appear as the structures of dually affine spaces. The dual of the Zariski closure operator is introduced, and the 1-sphere and its copowers together with their fundamental ...

We continue to study Zariski pairs in sextics. In this paper, we study Zariski pairs of sextics which are not irreducible. The idea of the construction of Zariski partner sextic for reducible cases is quit different from the irreducible case. It is crucial to take the geometry of the components and their mutual intersection data into account. When there is a line component, flex geometry (i.e.,...

We compute the fundamental groups of all irreducible plane sextics constituting classical Zariski pairs

A new class of noncommutative k-algebras (for k an algebraically closed field) is defined and shown to contain some important examples of quantum groups. To each such algebra, a first order theory is assigned describing models of a suitable corresponding geometric space. Model-theoretic results for these geometric structures are established (uncountable categoricity, quantifier elimination to t...

We describe the structure QHO = QHON (dependent on the positive integer number N) on the universe L which is a finite cover, of order N, of the projective line P = P(F), F an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0. We prove that QHO is a complete irreducible Zariski geometry of dimension 1. We also prove that QHO is not classical in the sense that the structure is not interpretable in a...

We present a method of Zariski-van Kampen type for the calculation of the transcendental lattice of a complex projective surface. As an application, we calculate the transcendental lattices of complex singular K3 surfaces associated with an arithmetic Zariski pair of maximizing sextics of type A10 + A9 that are defined over Q( √ 5) and are conjugate to each other by the action of Gal(Q( √

We present a method of Zariski-van Kampen type for the calculation of the transcendental lattice of a complex projective surface. As an application, we calculate the transcendental lattices of complex singular K3 surfaces associated with an arithmetic Zariski pair of maximizing sextics of type A10 + A9 that are defined over Q( √ 5) and are conjugate to each other by the action of Gal(Q( √ 5)/Q).

We prove some new degeneracy results for integral points and entire curves on surfaces; in particular, we provide the first examples, to our knowledge, of a simply connected smooth variety whose sets of integral points are never Zariski-dense (and no entire curve has Zariski-dense image). Some of our results are connected with divisibility problems, i.e. the problem of describing the integral p...

Definition. A couple of complex reduced projective plane curves C1 and C2 of a same degree is said to make a Zariski pair, if there exist tubular neighborhoods T (Ci) ⊂ P of Ci for i = 1, 2 such that (T (C1), C1) and (T (C2), C2) are diffeomorphic, while the pairs (P, C1) and (P , C2) are not homeomorphic; that is, the singularities of C1 and C2 are topologically equivalent, but the embeddings ...

Each Bers slice is a holomorphically embedded copy of Teichmüller space within XC(S). While it follows that BY can be locally described as the common zero locus of finitely many analytic functions on XC(S), it is known that the Bers slice is not a locally algebraic set [DK]—this is used to show that W. Thurston’s skinning map is not a constant function [DK]. We prove a stronger result about the...