Higher Structures in Geometry and Physics In Honor of Murray Gerstenhaber and Jim Stasheff /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cattaneo, Alberto S. (Editor), Giaquinto, Anthony (Editor), Xu, Ping (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston : Birkhäuser Boston, 2011.
• Series: Progress in Mathematics ; 287
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Algebraic geometry.; Group theory.; Topological groups.; Lie groups.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Physics.; Topological Groups, Lie Groups.; Group Theory and Generalizations.; Algebraic Geometry.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Applications of Mathematics.

This book is centered around higher algebraic structures stemming from the work of Murray Gerstenhaber and Jim Stasheff that are now ubiquitous in various areas of mathematics— such as algebra, algebraic topology, differential geometry, algebraic geometry, mathematical physics— and in theoretical ph...