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

Since the work of Stasheff and Sugawara in the 1960s on recognition of loop space structures on $H$-spaces, the notion of higher homotopies has grown to be a fundamental organizing principle in homotopy theory, differential graded homological algebra and even mathematical physics. This book presents the proceedings from a conference held on the occasion of Stasheff's 60th birthday at Vassar in June 1996. It offers a collection of very high quality papers and includes some fundamental essays on topics that open new areas. It's features include: accessible to a broad audience interested in mathematics and physics; offers a comprehensive overview of Stasheff's work; and, contains papers on very current research topics, including operads, combinatorial polyhedra and moduli spaces

Since the work of Stasheff and Sugawara in the 1960s on recognition of loop space structures on $H$-spaces, the notion of higher homotopies has grown to be a fundamental organizing principle in homotopy theory, differential graded homological algebra and even mathematical physics. This book presents the proceedings from a conference held on the occasion of Stasheff's 60th birthday at Vassar in June 1996. It offers a collection of very high quality papers and includes some fundamental essays on topics that open new areas. Features: Accessible to a broad audience interested in mathematics and physics. Offers a comprehensive overview of Stasheff's work. Contains papers on very current research topics, including operads, combinatorial polyhedra, and moduli spaces.

Proceedings of a June 1996 conference of interest to physicists, students, and research mathematicians working in topology, homological algebras, and mathematical physics. Contains papers on current research topics, including combinatorial polyhedra and moduli spaces. Specific subjects include spaces of local vector fields, perturbation and transfer of generic algebraic structure, hidden Stasheff polytopes in algebraic K-theory and in the space of Morse functions, and stable block bundle homotopy. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. Presents the proceedings from a conference held on the occasion of Stasheff's 60th birthday at Vassar in June 1996. Suitable for those interested in mathematics and physics, this work offers a comprehensive overview of Stasheff's work. It contains papers on research topics, including operads, combinatorial polyhedra and moduli spaces.