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most citedIntroduction to sh Lie algebras for physicists

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math.AT2022

Representations up to coherent homotopy

Tim Porter, Jim Stasheff

Homotopy coherence has a considerable history, albeit also by other names. We provide a brief semi-historical survey providing some links that may not be common knowledge.

math.AT2022

Homotopy coherent representations

Tim Porter, Jim Stasheff

Homotopy coherence has a considerable history, albeit also by other names. For this volume highlighting symmetries, the appropriate use is: Homotopy coherence of representations, a…

math.QA2021

Brackets by any other name

Jim Stasheff

Brackets by another name, Whitehead or Samelson products, have a history parallel to that in Kosmann-Schwarzbach's From Schouten to Mackenzie: notes on brackets. Here I sketch the…

math-ph2020★ 6 cited

From Lie algebra crossed modules to tensor hierarchies

Sylvain Lavau, Jim Stasheff

The present paper, though inspired by the use of tensor hierarchies in theoretical physics, establishes their mathematical credentials, especially as genetically related to Lie alg…

math.QA2018★ 4 cited

and structures: then and now

Jim Stasheff

Looking back over 55 years of higher homotopy structures, I reminisce as I recall the early days and ponder how they developed and how I now see them. From the history of $A_\infty…

math.AT2016★ 1 cited

How Dennis realized he had `invented' -algebras a.k.a. strongly homotopy Lie algebras

Jim Stasheff

This is my attempt to rediscover how Dennis realized that he had discovered/invented -algebras a.k.a. strongly homotopy Lie algebras before my colleagues and I defined th…