Quantum Chern-Simons theories on cylinders: BV-BFV partition functions
Abstract
We compute partition functions of Chern-Simons type theories for cylindrical spacetimes , with an interval and , in the BV-BFV formalism (a refinement of the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism adapted to manifolds with boundary and cutting-gluing). The case is considered as a toy example. We show that one can identify - for certain choices of residual fields - the "physical part" (restriction to degree zero fields) of the BV-BFV effective action with the Hamilton-Jacobi action computed in the companion paper [arXiv:2012.13270], without any quantum corrections. This Hamilton-Jacobi action is the action functional of a conformal field theory on . For , this implies a version of the CS-WZW correspondence. For , using a particular polarization on one end of the cylinder, the Chern-Simons partition function is related to Kodaira-Spencer gravity (a.k.a. BCOV theory); this provides a BV-BFV quantum perspective on the semiclassical result by Gerasimov and Shatashvili.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2012.13983,
title = {Quantum Chern-Simons theories on cylinders: BV-BFV partition functions},
author = {Alberto S. Cattaneo and Pavel Mnev and Konstantin Wernli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.13983},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
81 pages, 11 figures. v.2: updated references. v.3: small expository changes