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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…
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…
Deformation theory and rational homotopy type
Mike Schlessinger, Jim Stasheff
We regard the classification of rational homotopy types as a problem in algebraic deformation theory: any space with given cohomology is a perturbation, or deformation, of the "for…
Homotopy algebras inspired by classical open-closed string field theory
Hiroshige Kajiura, Jim Stasheff
We define a homotopy algebra associated to classical open-closed strings. We call it an open-closed homotopy algebra (OCHA). It is inspired by Zwiebach's open-closed string field t…
Noether's variational theorem II and the BV formalism
Ron Fulp, Tom Lada, Jim Stasheff
We review the basics of the Lagrangian approach to field theory and recast Noether's Second Theorem formulated in her language of dependencies using a slight modernization of termi…
Sh-Lie algebras Induced by Gauge Transformations
Ron Fulp, Tom Lada, Jim Stasheff
The physics of ``particles of spin '' leads to representations of a Lie algebra of gauge parameters on a vector space of fields. Attempts to develop an analogous th…