Poisson Geometry in Mathematics and Physics: International Conference June 5-9, 2006, Tokyo, Japan

Sixteen papers from the June 2006 conference present new results in normal forms of Poisson structures, deformation of Poisson structures, reduction of systems with symmetry, Kontsevich formality and its variants, and quantization of canonical transformations via their graphs. Topics include orbifold cohomology of abelian symplectic reductions, generalized Kähler and hyper-Kähler quotients, pure spinors and moment maps, and locally noncommutative space-times. No index is provided. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)