On the globalization of the Poisson sigma model in the BV-BFV formalism (Q1986567)

The paper discusses the Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) formalism for gauge theories. In contrast to conventional analysis in flat space, in this article, the authors extend and discuss this formalism in manifolds with boundaries. More specifically they try to implement a quantization procedure valid on the entire manifold that may have non-trivial boundary conditions. A family of quantization were found to satisfied a modified differential quantum master equation. Later this results were applied to the so-called Poisson-sigma models (a type of 2-dimensional topological field theory). In these respects I would say the authors were successful and the arguments presented are clear and convincing.