Product Description: This volume contains articles related to the conference "Motives, Quantum Field Theory, and Pseudodifferntial Operators" held at Boston University in June 2008, with partial support from the Clay Mathematics Institute, Boston University, and the National Science Foundation...read more

Product Description: The theory of motives began in the early 1960s when Grothendieck envisioned the existence of a "universal cohomology theory of algebraic varieties". The theory of noncommutative motives is more recent. It began in the 1980s when the Moscow school (Beilinson, Bondal, Kapranov, Manin, and others) began the study of algebraic varieties via their derived categories of coherent sheaves, and continued in the 2000s when Kontsevich conjectured the existence of a "universal invariant of noncommutative algebraic varieties"...read more