The first instances of deformation theory were given by Kodaira and Spencer for complex structures and by Gerstenhaber for associative algebras. Since then, deformation theory has been applied as a useful tool in the study of many other mathematical structures, and even today it plays an important role in many developments of modern mathematics.

This volume collects a few self-contained and peer-reviewed papers by experts which present up-to-date research topics in algebraic and motivic topology, quantum field theory, algebraic geometry, noncommutative geometry and the deformation theory of Poisson algebras.

The papers originate from activities at the Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics and the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics in Bonn.

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Readership

Graduate students and research mathematicians interested in algebraic geometry.

Table of Contents

• Contributions by Grégory Ginot, Thomas M. Fiore and Igor Kriz, Toshiro Hiranouchi and Satoshi Mochizuki, Paulo Carrillo Rouse, Donatella Iacono and Marco Manetti, John Terilla, and Anne Pichereau.