Quantum Chern-Simons theories on cylinders: BV-BFV partition functions (Q2684493)

In the BV-BFV formalism, which is an extension of the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism designed for manifolds with boundary and cutting-gluing, the authors compute partition functions for Chern-Simons type theories in cylindrical spacetimes \(I\times\Sigma\), where \(I\) is an interval and the dimension of \(\Sigma\) is \(4l+2\). They also examine the case where the dimension of \(\Sigma\) is \(0\) as a simple example. By selecting certain residual fields, they demonstrate that the ``physical part'' (degree zero fields) of the BV-BFV effective action can be matched with the Hamilton-Jacobi action, computed in their other paper \emph{Constrained systems, generalized Hamilton-Jacobi actions, and quantization}, without any quantum corrections. The Hamilton-Jacobi action is the action functional of a conformal field theory on \(\Sigma\). If \(\Sigma\) is of dimension two, this implies a version of the CS-WZW correspondence. By applying a specific polarization on one end of the cylinder for \(\Sigma\) of dimension six, the Chern-Simons partition function is connected to Kodaira-Spencer gravity (also known as BCOV theory), providing a BV-BFV quantum view on the semiclassical outcome by Gerasimov and Shatashvili.