{ "id": "2410.07207", "version": "v1", "published": "2024-09-25T09:22:24.000Z", "updated": "2024-09-25T09:22:24.000Z", "title": "Compactifications of C^n and the complex projective space", "authors": [ "Thomas Peternell" ], "categories": [ "math.AG", "math.CV" ], "abstract": "We show that the complex projective space is the only projective manifold compactifying $\\mathbb{C}^n$ by a smooth connected hypersurface.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2024-09-25T09:22:24.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "14M27", "32J05" ], "keywords": [ "complex projective space", "compactifications", "smooth connected hypersurface" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }