On the wonderful compactification
Abstract
These lecture notes explain the construction and basic properties of the wonderful compactification of a complex semisimple group of adjoint type. An appendix discusses the more general case of a semisimple symmetric space.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- January 2008
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.0801.0456
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0801.0456
- Bibcode:
- 2008arXiv0801.0456E
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Algebraic Geometry;
- Mathematics - Representation Theory;
- 14M17;
- 20G20
- E-Print:
- 28 pages