Toric and tropical compactifications of hyperplane complements
Algebraic Geometry
2014-12-01 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
These lecture notes are based on lectures given by the author at the summer school "Arrangements in Pyr\'en\'ees" in June 2012. We survey and compare various compactifications of complex hyperplane arrangement complements. In particular, we review the Gel'fand-MacPherson construction, Kapranov's visible contours compactification, and De Concini and Procesi's wonderful compactification. We explain how these constructions are unified by some ideas from the modern origins of tropical geometry. The paper contains a few new arguments intended to make the presentation as self-contained as possible.
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@article{arxiv.1306.3519,
title = {Toric and tropical compactifications of hyperplane complements},
author = {Graham Denham},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.3519},
year = {2014}
}
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26 pages