Toric and tropical compactifications of hyperplane complements
Graham Denham (2014)
Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques
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These lecture notes survey and compare various compactifications of complex hyperplane arrangement complements. In particular, we review the Gelfand-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.