Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism in the functional approach to classical field theory

DOI10.1007/S00220-012-1487-YMaRDI QIDQ444633zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Klaus Fredenhagen, Katarzyna Rejzner

Publication date 16 August 2012

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.5112

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E99) General theory of categories and functors (18A99)

Abstract: We develop the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism for classical field theory on generic globally hyperbolic spacetimes. A crucial aspect of our treatment is the incorporation of the principle of local covariance which amounts to formulate the theory without reference to a distinguished spacetime. In particular, this allows a homological construction of the Poisson algebra of observables in classical gravity. Our methods heavily rely on the differential geometry of configuration spaces of classical fields.

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