Kähler groups and rigidity phenomena
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The class of fundamental groups of non-singular complex projective varieties is an interesting, but as yet imperfectly understood, class of finitely presented groups. Membership of is known to be extremely restricted (see [22, 23]). In this paper, we employ geometrical rigidity properties to realize some group extensions as elements of as in our previous papers, we find it convenient to work simultaneously with the class ℋ of fundamental groups of compact Kähler manifolds.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 109 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 31 - 44
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