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Lectures on Wonderful Varieties

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These notes are an introduction to wonderful varieties. We discuss some general results on their geometry, their role in the theory of spherical varieties, several aspects of the combinatorics arising from these varieties, and some examples.

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Pezzini, G. Lectures on Wonderful Varieties. Acta. Math. Sin.-English Ser. 34, 417–438 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10114-017-7214-z

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