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Edited by: Jean-Louis Loday University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
James D. Stasheff University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Alexander A. Voronov CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
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Contemporary Mathematics
Volume: 2021997; 443 pp
MSC: Primary 08; 17; Secondary 16; 18; 55; 81;

“Operads” are mathematical devices which model many sorts of algebras (such as associative, commutative, Lie, Poisson, alternative, Leibniz, etc., including those defined up to homotopy, such as $A_{\infty}$-algebras). Since the notion of an operad appeared in the seventies in algebraic topology, there has been a renaissance of this theory due to the discovery of relationships with graph cohomology, Koszul duality, representation theory, combinatorics, cyclic cohomology, moduli spaces, knot theory, and quantum field theory.

This renaissance was recognized at a special session “Moduli Spaces, Operads, and Representation Theory” of the AMS meeting in Hartford, CT (March 1995), and at a conference “Opérades et Algèbre Homotopique” held at the Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques at Luminy, France (May–June 1995). Both meetings drew a diverse group of researchers.

The authors have arranged the contributions so as to emphasize certain themes around which the renaissance of operads took place: homotopy algebra, algebraic topology, polyhedra and combinatorics, and applications to physics.

Graduate students, research mathematicians, mathematical physicists, and physicists interested in general algebraic systems.

• Articles
• J. P. May - Definitions: operads, algebras and modules [ MR 1436912 ]
• Jim Stasheff - The pre-history of operads [ MR 1436913 ]
• J. P. May - Operads, algebras and modules [ MR 1436914 ]
• Andy Tonks - Relating the associahedron and the permutohedron [ MR 1436915 ]
• Clemens Berger - Combinatorial models for real configuration spaces and $E_n$-operads [ MR 1436916 ]
• Jim Stasheff - From operads to “physically” inspired theories [ MR 1436917 ]
• Allahtan Victor Gnedbaye - Opérades des algèbres $(k+1)$-aires [ MR 1436918 ]
• Jean-Michel Oudom - Coproduct and cogroups in the category of graded dual Leibniz algebras [ MR 1436919 ]
• Hans-Joachim Baues, Mamuka Jibladze and Andy Tonks - Cohomology of monoids in monoidal categories [ MR 1436920 ]
• Thomas F. Fox and Martin Markl - Distributive laws, bialgebras, and cohomology [ MR 1436921 ]
• David Balavoine - Deformations of algebras over a quadratic operad [ MR 1436922 ]
• Terrence P. Bisson and André Joyal - $Q$-rings and the homology of the symmetric groups [ MR 1436923 ]
• J. P. May - Operadic tensor products and smash products [ MR 1436924 ]
• Takashi Kimura, Alexander A. Voronov and Gregg J. Zuckerman - Homotopy Gerstenhaber algebras and topological field theory [ MR 1436925 ]
• Yi-Zhi Huang - Intertwining operator algebras, genus-zero modular functors and genus-zero conformal field theories [ MR 1436926 ]
• Boris Feigin and Feodor Malikov - Modular functor and representation theory of $\widehat {\rm sl}_2$ at a rational level [ MR 1436927 ]
• Jack Morava - Quantum generalized cohomology [ MR 1436928 ]
• J.-L. Brylinski and D. A. McLaughlin - Non-commutative reciprocity laws associated to finite groups [ MR 1436929 ]
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Volume: 2021997; 443 pp
MSC: Primary 08; 17; Secondary 16; 18; 55; 81;

“Operads” are mathematical devices which model many sorts of algebras (such as associative, commutative, Lie, Poisson, alternative, Leibniz, etc., including those defined up to homotopy, such as $A_{\infty}$-algebras). Since the notion of an operad appeared in the seventies in algebraic topology, there has been a renaissance of this theory due to the discovery of relationships with graph cohomology, Koszul duality, representation theory, combinatorics, cyclic cohomology, moduli spaces, knot theory, and quantum field theory.

This renaissance was recognized at a special session “Moduli Spaces, Operads, and Representation Theory” of the AMS meeting in Hartford, CT (March 1995), and at a conference “Opérades et Algèbre Homotopique” held at the Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques at Luminy, France (May–June 1995). Both meetings drew a diverse group of researchers.

The authors have arranged the contributions so as to emphasize certain themes around which the renaissance of operads took place: homotopy algebra, algebraic topology, polyhedra and combinatorics, and applications to physics.

Graduate students, research mathematicians, mathematical physicists, and physicists interested in general algebraic systems.

• Articles
• J. P. May - Definitions: operads, algebras and modules [ MR 1436912 ]
• Jim Stasheff - The pre-history of operads [ MR 1436913 ]
• J. P. May - Operads, algebras and modules [ MR 1436914 ]
• Andy Tonks - Relating the associahedron and the permutohedron [ MR 1436915 ]
• Clemens Berger - Combinatorial models for real configuration spaces and $E_n$-operads [ MR 1436916 ]
• Jim Stasheff - From operads to “physically” inspired theories [ MR 1436917 ]
• Allahtan Victor Gnedbaye - Opérades des algèbres $(k+1)$-aires [ MR 1436918 ]
• Jean-Michel Oudom - Coproduct and cogroups in the category of graded dual Leibniz algebras [ MR 1436919 ]
• Hans-Joachim Baues, Mamuka Jibladze and Andy Tonks - Cohomology of monoids in monoidal categories [ MR 1436920 ]
• Thomas F. Fox and Martin Markl - Distributive laws, bialgebras, and cohomology [ MR 1436921 ]
• David Balavoine - Deformations of algebras over a quadratic operad [ MR 1436922 ]
• Terrence P. Bisson and André Joyal - $Q$-rings and the homology of the symmetric groups [ MR 1436923 ]
• J. P. May - Operadic tensor products and smash products [ MR 1436924 ]
• Takashi Kimura, Alexander A. Voronov and Gregg J. Zuckerman - Homotopy Gerstenhaber algebras and topological field theory [ MR 1436925 ]
• Yi-Zhi Huang - Intertwining operator algebras, genus-zero modular functors and genus-zero conformal field theories [ MR 1436926 ]
• Boris Feigin and Feodor Malikov - Modular functor and representation theory of $\widehat {\rm sl}_2$ at a rational level [ MR 1436927 ]
• Jack Morava - Quantum generalized cohomology [ MR 1436928 ]
• J.-L. Brylinski and D. A. McLaughlin - Non-commutative reciprocity laws associated to finite groups [ MR 1436929 ]
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