BV Yang-Mills as a Homotopy Chern-Simons via SFT

Abstract

We show explicitly how BV Yang-Mills action emerges as a homotopy generalization of Chern-Simons theory from the algebraic constructions arising from String Field Theory.

LaTeX2e, 22 pages, minor revisions, typos corrected, references added, Int. J. Mod. Physics A, published version

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