Higher homotopy structures in topology and mathematical physics : proceedings of an international conference June 13-15, 1996 at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, to honor the sixtieth birthday of Jim Stasheff /

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Imprint:Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c1999.
Description:xii, 321 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Contemporary mathematics ; 227
Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; v. 227.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3509112
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Other authors / contributors:Stasheff, James D.
McCleary, John, 1952-
ISBN:082180913X (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • An appreciation of the work of Jim Stasheff
  • The cohomology flat product and the Berstein algebra of a co-H-space
  • Spaces of local vector fields
  • Operads from the viewpoint of categorical algebra
  • Double loop spaces, braided monoidal categories and algebraic 3-type of space
  • Poisson brackets with divergence terms in field theories: Three examples
  • Grassmannian and elliptic operators
  • On the deformation of rings and algebras. V: Deformation of differential graded algebras
  • Perturbation and transfer of generic algebraic structure
  • Extensions of Lie-Rinehart algebras and the Chern-Weil construction
  • On the category of fibre bundles, Lie groups, and Frobenius maps
  • Hidden Stasheff polytopes in algebraic $K$-theory and in the space of Morse functions
  • Commutators of $A_\infty$ structures
  • Simplex, associahedron, and cyclohedron
  • Rings of generalized and stable invariants and classifying spaces of compact Lie groups
  • Block bundle origin of stable block bundle homotopy
  • On $p$-minimal homological models of twisted tensor products of elementary complexes localised over a prime
  • Stability of the rational homotopy type of moduli spaces