{ "id": "0801.0456", "version": "v1", "published": "2008-01-03T00:21:56.000Z", "updated": "2008-01-03T00:21:56.000Z", "title": "On the wonderful compactification", "authors": [ "Sam Evens", "Benjamin F Jones" ], "comment": "28 pages", "categories": [ "math.AG", "math.RT" ], "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.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2008-01-03T00:21:56.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "14M17", "20G20" ], "keywords": [ "wonderful compactification", "lecture notes explain", "semisimple symmetric space", "complex semisimple group", "general case" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 28, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2008arXiv0801.0456E" } } }