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Abstract: Real algebraic varieties seem to be quite distant from combinatorial geometry. We intend to demonstrate how to construct real algebraic varieties in a combinatorial fashion: one can patchwork them from pieces which essentially are hyperplanes. This procedure, called the combinatorial patchworking, is a particular case of the Viro method of construction of real algebraic varieties with prescribed topology.
The combinatorial patchworking has important applications. We discuss one of them: a construction of maximal hypersurfaces and, more generally, maximal complete intersections in projective spaces.
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