Maurer–Cartan Methods in Deformation Theory

DOI10.1017/9781108963800MaRDI QIDQ6104797zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Vladimir Dotsenko, S. Shadrin, Bruno Vallette

Publication date 28 June 2023

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.11323

zbMATH Keywords

Givental actionhomotopy transfer theoremKoszul hierarchyMaurer-Cartan equationoperadic twisting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

de Rham cohomology and algebraic geometry (14F40) Differential graded algebras and applications (associative algebraic aspects) (16E45) Graph complexes and graph homology (18G85) Algebraic operads, cooperads, and Koszul duality (18M70) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry (53-02) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Topology of vector bundles and fiber bundles (57R22) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to global analysis (58-02) Differential forms in global analysis (58A10) de Rham theory in global analysis (58A12) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)

Abstract: This monograph provides an overview on the Maurer-Cartan methods in algebra, geometry, topology, and mathematical physics. It offers a conceptual, exhaustive and gentle treatment of the twisting procedure, which functorially creates new differential graded Lie algebras, associative algebras or operads (as well as their homotopy versions) from a Maurer-Cartan element. The twisting procedure for (homotopy) associative algebras or (homotopy) Lie algebras is described by means of the action of the biggest deformation gauge group ever considered. We give a criterion on quadratic operads for the existence of a meaningful twisting procedure of their associated categories of algebras. And, we introduce the twisting procedure for operads `a la Willwacher using a new and simpler presentation, which provides us with a wide source of motivating examples related to graph homology, both recovering known graph complexes (due to Kontsevich) and introducing some new ones. This book starts with elementary surveys on gauge theory and deformation theory using differential graded Lie algebras in order to ease the way to the theory. It finishes with concise surveys on the fundamental theorem of deformation theory, higher Lie theory, rational homotopy theory, simplicial theory of homotopy algebras, and the Floer cohomology of Lagrangian submanifolds, to illustrate deep examples of applications.

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Cited in

(12)

• Complete L_ -algebras and their homotopy theory
• On the Goldman-Millson theorem for \(A_\infty\)-algebras in arbitrary characteristic
• Deformation theory of cohomological field theories
• Universal first-order Massey product of a prefactorization algebra
• Maurer-Cartan methods in perturbative quantum mechanics
• Twisted homotopy algebras: spontaneous symmetry breaking, anomalies, localisation, and supersymmetric twists
• Deformation maps of quasi-twilled associative algebras
• Generalized Ricci and Bianchi identities for a connection with torsion non-tensor and curvature non-tensor
• Operadic deformation theory
• Volume preservation of Butcher series methods from the operad viewpoint
• A Deligne conjecture for prestacks
• Hypertrees and embedding of the FMan operad

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