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

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2023.104956MaRDI QIDQ6137717zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alberto Cattaneo, Pavel Mnev

Publication date 4 September 2023

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.11211

zbMATH Keywords

Batalin-Vilkovisky formalismfiber productk-symplectic manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56)

Abstract: In classical field theory, gluing spacetime manifolds along boundary corresponds to taking a fiber product of the corresponding spaces of fields (as differential graded Fr'echet manifolds) up to homotopy. We construct this homotopy explicitly in several examples in the setting of BV-BFV formalism (Batalin--Vilkovisky formalism with cutting--gluing).

Review text

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).

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