A Classical Bulk-Boundary Correspondence

Abstract

In this article, we use the language of $\mathbb{P}_0$-factorization algebras to articulate a classical bulk-boundary correspondence between 1) the observables of a Poisson Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) theory on a manifold $N$ and 2) the observables of the associated universal bulk-boundary system on $N\times \mathbb{R}_{\geq 0}$. The archetypal such example is the Poisson BV theory on $\mathbb{R}$ encoding the algebra of functions on a Poisson manifold, whose associated bulk-boundary system on the upper half-plane is the Poisson sigma model. In this way, we obtain a generalization and partial justification of the basic insight that led Kontsevich to his deformation quantization of Poisson manifolds. The proof of these results relies significantly on the operadic homotopy theory of $\mathbb{P}_0$-algebras.