PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY, cilt.147, sa.7, ss.2797-2808, 2019 (SCI-Expanded)
Let Omega be the complement of a connected, essential hyperplane arrangement. We prove that every dominant endomorphism of Omega extends to an endomorphism of the tropical compactification X of Omega associated to the Bergman fan structure on the tropical variety trop(Omega). This generalizes a result in [Compos. Math. 149 (2013), pp. 1211-1224], which states that every automorphism of Drinfeld's half-space over a finite field Fq extends to an automorphism of the successive blow-up of projective space at all Fq-rational linear subspaces. This successive blow-up is in fact the minimal wonderful compactification by de Concini and Procesi, which coincides with X by results of Feichtner and Sturmfels. Whereas the proof in [Compos. Math. 149 (2013), pp. 1211-1224] is based on Berkovich analytic geometry over the trivially valued finite ground field, the generalization proved in the present paper relies on matroids and tropical geometry.