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hep-th1997
The (secret?) homological algebra of the Batalin-Vilkovisky approach
Jim Stasheff
This is a survey of `Cohomological Physics', a phrase that first appeared in the context of anomalies in gauge theory. Differential forms were implicit in physics at least as far b…
hep-th1993
Closed string field theory, strong homotopy Lie algebras and the operad actions of moduli space
Jim Stasheff
This is an expanded and updated version of a talk given at the Conference on Topics in Geometry and Physics at the University of Southern California, November 6, 1992. It is a surv…