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Linear Batalin-Vilkovisky quantization as a functor of $\infty$-categories

Algebraic Topology 2020-02-28 v2 Algebraic Geometry Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We study linear Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) quantization, which is a derived and shifted version of the Weyl quantization of symplectic vector spaces. Using a variety of homotopical machinery, we implement this construction as a symmetric monoidal functor of \infty-categories. We also show that this construction has a number of pleasant properties: It has a natural extension to derived algebraic geometry, it can be fed into the higher Morita category of EnE_n-algebras to produce a "higher BV quantization" functor, and when restricted to formal moduli problems, it behaves like a determinant. Along the way we also use our machinery to give an algebraic construction of EnE_n-enveloping algebras for shifted Lie algebras.

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@article{arxiv.1608.01290,
  title  = {Linear Batalin-Vilkovisky quantization as a functor of $\infty$-categories},
  author = {Owen Gwilliam and Rune Haugseng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.01290},
  year   = {2020}
}

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50 pages, final version

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