Algebraic & Geometric Topology Volume 10, issue 3 (2010)

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The characterization of a line arrangement whose fundamental group of the complement is a direct sum of free groups

Meital Eliyahu, Eran Liberman, Malka Schaps and Mina Teicher

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 10 (2010) 1285–1304

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2010.10.1285

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