Algebraic Operads
| Author/creator | Loday, Jean-Louis Author |
| Other author | Vallette,Bruno Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Springer |
| Description | xxiv, 634 p. ill 23.500 x 015.500 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Springer Nature - Springer Mathematics and Statistics eBooks 2012 English International |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Springer Books |
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| Series | Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften Ser. 346 |
| Summary | Annotation In many areas of mathematics some higher operations are arising. These havebecome so important that several research projects refer to such expressions. Higher operationsform new types of algebras. The key to understanding and comparing them, to creating invariants of their action is operad theory. This is a point of view that is 40 years old in algebraic topology, but the new trend is its appearance in several other areas, such as algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, differential geometry, and combinatorics. The present volume is the first comprehensive and systematic approach to algebraic operads. An operad is an algebraic device that serves to study all kinds of algebras (associative, commutative, Lie, Poisson, A-infinity, etc.) from a conceptual point of view. The book presents this topic with an emphasis on Koszul duality theory. After a modern treatment of Koszul duality for associative algebras, the theory is extended to operads. Applications to homotopy algebra are given, for instance the Homotopy Transfer Theorem. Although the necessary notions of algebra are recalled, readers are expected to be familiar with elementary homological algebra. Each chapter ends with a helpful summary and exercises. A full chapter is devoted to examples, and numerous figures are included. After a low-level chapter on Algebra, accessible to (advanced) undergraduate students, the level increases gradually through the book. However, the authors have done their best to make it suitable for graduate students: three appendicesreview the basic results needed in order to understand the various chapters. Since higher algebra is becoming essential in several research areas like deformation theory, algebraic geometry, representation theory, differential geometry, algebraic combinatorics, and mathematical physics, the book can also be used as a reference work by researchers. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9783642303616 |
| ISBN | 3642303617 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9783642303616 |
| Stock number | 9783642303616 00024965 |
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