Ekedahl, Torsten On the fundamental group of a unirational variety. (Sur le groupe fondamental d’une variété unirationelle.) (French) Zbl 0591.14010 C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. I 297, 627-629 (1983). The author introduces new birational invariants for a nonsingular complete variety \(X\) defined over a finite field \(\mathbb F_q\), \(q=p^r\), which are defined in terms of the étale and crystalline cohomologies of \(X\). Then he applies these invariants to show that the fundamental group of a unirational, nonsingular, complete variety defined over an algebraically closed field of characteristic \(p>0\) has a trivial \(p\)-Sylow group. If the variety is projective instead of being complete, the result is due to N. Suwa. Reviewer: Masayoshi Miyanishi (Toyonaka/Osaka) Cited in 6 Documents MSC: 14E20 Coverings in algebraic geometry 14F30 \(p\)-adic cohomology, crystalline cohomology 14M20 Rational and unirational varieties 14G15 Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry Keywords:unirational variety; fundamental group; prime characteristic; trivial p-Sylow group PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{T. Ekedahl}, C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. I 297, 627--629 (1983; Zbl 0591.14010)