Beschreibung
"Everything" is a boundary condition of AKSZ models
The chiral WZW model can be seen as the chiral boundary condition of the Chern-Simons theory. If we move from Chern-Simons to arbitrary AKSZ models, similar boundary conditions give us BV descriptions of "any" (possibly higher gauge) models whose fields are suitable differential forms. The simplest examples come from exact Courant algebroids, where the corresponding models will be (possibly gauged) 2d sigma models, and from Poisson sigma model, giving us Hamiltonian mechanics on the Poisson manifold (or on its reduction). Based on a joint work with Jan Pulmann and Fridrich Valach.