2009/02/25 by Jim Stasheff, Stasheff, Jim
Mathematics · #Advanced Topics in Algebra #Algebraic Topology (math.AT) #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #FOS: Mathematics #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Quantum Algebra (math.QA) #math.AT #math.QA
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0902.4396
17 pages, in honor of the 60-th birthday of Tornike Kadeishvilli
arxiv created 2009/02/25 · openalex publication_date 2009/02/25 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Early in the history of higher homotopy algebra, it was realized that Massey products are homotopy invariants in a special sense, but it was the work of Tornike Kadeisvili that showed they were but a shadow of an A-infinity-structure on the homology of a differential graded algebra. Here we relate his work to that of Victor Gugenheim and K.T. (Chester) Chen. This paper is a personal tribute to Tornike and the Georgian school of homotopy theory as well as to Gugenheim and Chen, who unfortunately are not with us to appreciate this convergence.