Topology, Hyperbolicity, and the Shafarevich Conjecture for Complex Algebraic Varieties

Abstract: This survey presents recent developments concerning the Shafarevich conjecture, non-abelian Hodge theories, hyperbolicity, and the topology of complex algebraic varieties, as well as the interplay among these areas. More precisely, we present the main ideas and techniques involved in the linear versions of the following conjectures: the Shafarevich conjecture, the Chern-Hopf-Thurston conjecture, Kollár's conjecture on the holomorphic Euler characteristic, the de Oliveira-Katzarkov-Ramachandran conjecture, and Campana's nilpotency conjecture. In addition, we discuss characterizations of the hyperbolicity of complex quasi-projective varieties via representations of their fundamental groups, together with the generalized Green-Griffiths-Lang conjecture in the presence of a big local system.