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Deformation Theory Seminar

Wednesday, July 7, 2004 - 3:05pm

jim stasheff

U Penn (UNC-CH Emeritus)

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

I hope to cover some of the following topics - not necessarily in this order: Diff forms (Chen) on string space Parameterization invariance of strings Operadic aspects of string field algebra \tCompactified config and moduli spaces spaces \tSwiss cheese operad Physical versus chain level alg structure Particular HK-JDS choices for open-closed case \tCyclicity Open problems