On Kontsevich's Formality Theorem
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چکیده
This paper is submitted as a dissertation for the degree of a Master of Science in Mathematics. It reviews the link between formal deformation quantizations and Poisson manifolds, which was conjectured in 1993. This link is a corollary of a more general statement called "Formality Theorem", proved by Maxim Kontsevich in 1997. supervised by Prof. John Jones
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