Normal analytic compactifications of C^2

Abstract

This is a survey of some results on the structure and classification of normal analytic compactifications of C^2. Mirroring the existing literature, we especially emphasize the compactifications for which the curve at infinity is irreducible.

Final version - to appear in the proceedings of the conference on Groups of Automorphisms in Birational and Affine Geometry (Levico Terme, Italy, Oct 29 - Nov 3, 2013)

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• Algebraicity of normal analytic compactifications of C^2 with one irreducible curve at infinity