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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480260603321

Titolo

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 / / John McCleary, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1999]

©1999

ISBN

0-8218-7818-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics ; ; 227

Disciplina

514/.24

Soggetti

Homotopy theory

Topology

Mathematical physics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Invited addresses""; ""Contributed papers""; ""Participants""; ""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""; ""Grassmanian and elliptic operators""; ""On the deformation of rings and algebras V: Deformation of differential graded algebras""

""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""