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Globally irreducible nodes (i.e. nodes whose branches belong to the same irreducible component) have mild effects on the most common topological invariants of an algebraic curve. In other words, adding a globally irreducible node (simple nodal degeneration) to a curve should not change them a lot. In this paper we study the effect of nodal degeneration of curves on fundamental groups and show examples where simple nodal degenerations produce non-isomorphic fundamental groups and this can be detected in an algebraic way by means of Galois covers.
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Bartolo, E.A., Cogolludo, J.I. & Tokunaga, Ho. Nodal degenerations of plane curves and galois covers. Geom Dedicata 121, 129–142 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-006-9094-8
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