TY - BOOK AU - Martin Markl TI - Deformation theory of algebras and their diagrams T2 - CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics SN - 978-0-8218-8979-4 AV - QA169 PY - 2012///] CY - Rhode Island PB - American Mathematical Society KW - Mathematics N1 - Chapter 1. Basic notions Chapter 2. Deformations and cohomology Chapter 3. Finer structures of cohomology Chapter 4. The gauge group Chapter 5. The simplicial Maurer-Cartan space Chapter 6. Strongly homotopy Lie algebras Chapter 7. Homotopy invariance and quantization Chapter 8. Brief introduction to operads Chapter 9. L∞-algebras governing deformations Chapter 10. Examples N2 - This book brings together both the classical and current aspects of deformation theory. The presentation is mostly self-contained, assuming only basic knowledge of commutative algebra, homological algebra and category theory. In the interest of readability, some technically complicated proofs have been omitted when a suitable reference was available. The relation between the uniform continuity of algebraic maps and topologized tensor products is explained in detail, however, as this subject does not seem to be commonly known and the literature is scarce. ---summary provided by publisher ER -