# Strongly homotopy Lie algebras

@article{Lada1994StronglyHL,
title={Strongly homotopy Lie algebras},
journal={Communications in Algebra},
year={1994},
volume={23},
pages={2147-2161}
}
• Published 15 June 1994
• Mathematics
• Communications in Algebra
The present paper can be thought of as a continuation of the paper "Introduction to sh Lie algebras for physicists" by T. Lada and J. Stasheff (International Journal of Theoretical Physics Vol. 32, No. 7 (1993), 1087--1103, appeared also as preprint hep-th/9209099) which provided an exposition of the basic ingredients of the theory of strongly homotopy Lie algebras sufficient for the underpinnings of the physically relevant examples. We demonstrate the `strong homotopy' analog of the usual…
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