Download or read book Homotopical Quantum Field Theory written by Donald Yau and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a general and powerful definition of homotopy algebraic quantum field theory and homotopy prefactorization algebra using a new coend definition of the Boardman-Vogt construction for a colored operad. All of their homotopy coherent structures are explained in details, along with a comparison between the two approaches at the operad level. With chapters on basic category theory, trees, and operads, this book is self-contained and is accessible to graduate students.