A note on gluing via fiber products in the (classical) BV-BFV formalism (Q6137717)

This note fits into the authors' study of the BV-BFV (Batalin-Vilkovisky) formalism of field theory, together with Reshetikhin ([\textit{A. S. Cattaneo} et al., Commun. Math. Phys. 332, No. 2, 535--603 (2014; Zbl 1302.81141)]). From the abstract: ``In classical field theory, gluing spacetime manifolds along boundary corresponds to taking a fibered product of the corresponding spaces of fields (as differential graded Fréchet manifolds) up to homotopy. We construct this homotopy explicitly in several examples in the setting of BV-BFV formalism with cutting gluing''. The cases worked out in this note are abelian Chern-Simons theory, abelian BF theory and p-form electrodynamics in the first-or-second-order formalism (including a massless scalar field and usual electrodynamics in the p=0 and p=1 cases).