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From Schouten to Mackenzie: Notes on brackets

Kosmann-Schwarzbach Yvette

Paris, France

In Memory of Kirill Mackenzie (1951–2020)

Received: March 2021

Early access: July 2021

Published: September 2021

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In this paper, dedicated to the memory of Kirill Mackenzie, I relate the origins and early development of the theory of graded Lie brackets, first in the publications on differential geometry of Schouten, Nijenhuis, and Frölicher–Nijenhuis, then in the work of Gerstenhaber and Nijenhuis–Richardson in cohomology theory.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 01A60, 17-03, 53-03; Secondary: 17B70, 16E40, 53C15.

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