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These are expanded lecture notes from lectures given at the Workshop on higher structures at MATRIX Melbourne. These notes give an introduction to Feynman categories and their applications. Feynman categories give a universal categorical way to encode operations and relations. This includes the aspects of operad-like theories such as PROPs, modular operads, twisted (modular) operads, properads, hyperoperads and their colored versions. There is more depth to the general theory as it applies as well to algebras over operads and an abundance of other related structures, such as crossed simplicial groups, the augmented simplicial category or FI-modules. Through decorations and transformations the theory is also related to the geometry of moduli spaces. Furthermore the morphisms in a Feynman category give rise to Hopf- and bi-algebras with examples coming from topology, number theory and quantum field theory. All these aspects are covered.
Workshop on higher structures at MATRIX in Creswick, June 7–9, 2016.
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I thankfully acknowledge my co-authors with whom it has been a pleasure to work. I furthermore thank the organizers of the MATRIX workshop for providing the opportunity to give these lectures and for arranging the special issue.
The work presented here has at various stages been supported by the Humboldt Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Max–Planck Institute for Mathematics, the IHES and by the NSF. Current funding is provided by the Simons foundation.
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Kaufmann, R.M. (2018). Lectures on Feynman Categories. In: de Gier, J., Praeger, C., Tao, T. (eds) 2016 MATRIX Annals. MATRIX Book Series, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72299-3_19
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