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This is a survey of combinatorial models for covering spaces of the complement of a complexified hyperplane arrangement. We obtain a unified picture of the subject, and a generalization of various known results, by exploiting the toolkit of homotopy colimits for combinatorial applications developed by Welker, Ziegler and Živaljević.
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Delucchi, E. (2009). Combinatorics of Covers of Complexified Hyperplane Arrangements. In: El Zein, F., Suciu, A.I., Tosun, M., Uludağ, A.M., Yuzvinsky, S. (eds) Arrangements, Local Systems and Singularities. Progress in Mathematics, vol 283. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0209-9_1
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