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 -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 -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 -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