An invitation to toric degenerations
Algebraic Geometry
2009-07-23 v2 Symplectic Geometry
Abstract
This is an expository paper which explores the ideas of the authors' paper "From Affine Geometry to Complex Geometry", arXiv:0709.2290. We explain the basic ideas of the latter paper by going through a large number of concrete, increasingly complicated examples.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0808.2749,
title = {An invitation to toric degenerations},
author = {Mark Gross and Bernd Siebert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.2749},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
41 pages, 21 figures; v2: typos corrected