Timeline for Why are so few operations with arity bigger than 2?
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| Jan 26 at 11:08 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Stefan Kohl♦ | ||
| Dec 14, 2010 at 23:51 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | Examples of important and non-trivial $L_\infty$-algebras appear as the 'Lie algebras' of higher terms in the Whitehead tower for $O(n)$ (or more generally simple, finite-dimensional Lie groups) which are naturally smooth $k$-groupoids (various $k$), applicable in string theory. | |
| Dec 14, 2010 at 21:57 | comment | added | Ben Webster♦ | But of course, then you may as well ask "why are so many important $A_\infty$-algebras formal?" | |
| Dec 14, 2010 at 21:50 | history | answered | Alicia Garcia-Raboso | CC BY-SA 2.5 |