Deformation theory and rational homotopy type
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Publication:6236985
arXiv1211.1647MaRDI QIDQ6236985FDOQ6236985
Authors: Mike Schlessinger, Jim Stasheff 
Publication date: 7 November 2012
Abstract: 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 "formal" space with that cohomology. The classifying space is then a "moduli" space --- a certain quotient of an algebraic variety of perturbations. The description we give of this moduli space links it with corresponding structures in homotopy theory, especially the classification of fibres spaces with fixed fibre F in terms of homotopy classes of maps of the base B into a classifying space constructed from the monoid of homotopy equivalences of F to itself. We adopt the philosophy, later promoted by Deligne in response to Goldman and Millson, that any problem in deformation theory is "controlled" by a differential graded Lie algebra, unique up to homology equivalence (quasi-isomorphism) of dg Lie algebras. Here we extend this philosophy further to control by sh-Lie-algebras.
Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Fibrations, degenerations in algebraic geometry (14D06) Classification of homotopy type (55P15) Rational homotopy theory (55P62)
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