Department of Mathematics2024-11-0920100025-584X10.1002/mana.2007101782-s2.0-77956289231http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mana.200710178https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/12561Based on the (not yet fully understood analogy) between irregular connections and wild ramification, we define a purely irregular fundamental group for complex algebraic varieties and prove some results about this fundamental group which are analogous to the p-adic etale fundamental group of algebraic varieties over fields of characteristic p.MathematicsJournal Article1522-2616282248600009Q18906