A twisted tale of cochains and connections

DOI10.1515/GMJ.2010.009zbMATH Open1194.01143arXiv0902.4396OpenAlexW1871673939MaRDI QIDQ3563380FDOQ3563380

Authors: Jim Stasheff 

Publication date: 31 May 2010

Published in: gmj (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Early in the history of higher homotopy algebra, it was realized that Massey products are homotopy invariants in a special sense, but it was the work of Tornike Kadeisvili that showed they were but a shadow of an A-infinity-structure on the homology of a differential graded algebra. Here we relate his work to that of Victor Gugenheim and K.T. (Chester) Chen. This paper is a personal tribute to Tornike and the Georgian school of homotopy theory as well as to Gugenheim and Chen, who unfortunately are not with us to appreciate this convergence.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.4396

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zbMATH Keywords

string field theory\(A_\infty\)-structuretwisting cochain\(L_\infty\)-structureChen connectionhigher homotopy algebratwisting element

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Loop spaces (55P35) History of algebraic topology (55-03) Fiber spaces in algebraic topology (55R05)

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