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Author Doubek, Martin, author

Title Algebraic structure of string field theory / Martin Doubek, Branislav Jurčo, Martin Markl, Ivo Sachs
Published Cham : Springer, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Lecture Notes in Physics, 0075-8450 ; v. 973
Lecture notes in physics ; 973. 0075-8450
Contents Relativistic Point Particle -- String Theory -- Open and closed strings -- Open-closed BV equation -- A- and L-algebras -- Homotopy involutive Lie bialgebras -- Operads -- Feynman transform of a modular operad -- Structures relevant to physics
Summary This book gives a modern presentation of modular operands and their role in string field theory. The authors aim to outline the arguments from the perspective of homotopy algebras and their operadic origin. Part I reviews string field theory from the point of view of homotopy algebras, including A-infinity algebras, loop homotopy (quantum L-infinity) and IBL-infinity algebras governing its structure. Within this framework, the covariant construction of a string field theory naturally emerges as composition of two morphisms of particular odd modular operads. This part is intended primarily for researchers and graduate students who are interested in applications of higher algebraic structures to strings and quantum field theory. Part II contains a comprehensive treatment of the mathematical background on operads and homotopy algebras in a broader context, which should appeal also to mathematicians who are not familiar with string theory
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject String models -- Mathematics
Geometry, Algebraic.
Mathematical physics.
Physics.
Physics
physics.
String models -- Mathematics
Geometry, Algebraic
Mathematical physics
Physics
Form Electronic book
Author Jurčo, Branislav, 1961- author.
Markl, Martin, 1960- author.
Sachs, I., author.
ISBN 9783030530563
3030530566