L-infinity algebras in physics
Urs Schreiber
The concept of L-∞ algebras as graded vector spaces equipped with -ary brackets satisfying a generalized Jacobi identity is due to:
Jim Stasheff: Differential graded Lie algebras, quasi-Hopf algebras and higher homotopy algebras, in Quantum groups, in Lecture Notes in Math. 1510, Springer (1992) [doi:10.1007/BFb0101184]
Tom Lada, Jim Stasheff,: Introduction to sh Lie algebras for physicists, Int. J. Theo. Phys. 32 (1993) 1087–1103 [doi:10.1007/BF00671791, arXiv:hep-th/9209099]
Tom Lada, Martin..
