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A projective fourfold with large fundamental group and non-Stein universal cover
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Abstract
We construct a smooth projective complex fourfold with large fundamental group whose universal cover is not Stein. The universal cover contains no positive-dimensional compact complex-analytic subvariety, so this disproves Shafarevich's holomorphic-convexity conjecture even under the large-fundamental-group hypothesis.
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