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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.

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@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

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