The space of unordered real line arrangements (Q1764175)

The author shows that the set of all unordered real line arrangements of given degree in the projective plane has a natural structure of a smooth compact connected affine real algebraic variety. An explicit isomorphism with a real projective space is also given. As a consequence, he gets a projectively linear structure on the set of real line arrangements of given degree. He also shows that the universal family of unordered real line arrangements of given degree at least 2 is not algebraic but only semialgebraic.