We express covariance of the Batalin–Vilkovisky formalism in classical mechanics by means of the Maurer–Cartan equation in a curved Lie superalgebra, defined using the formal variational calculus and Sullivan’s Thom–Whitney construction. We use this framework to construct a Batalin–Vilkovisky canonical transformation identifying the Batalin–Vilkovisky formulation of the spinning particle with an AKSZ field theory.
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Getzler, E. (2019). Covariance in the Batalin–Vilkovisky formalism and the Maurer–Cartan equation for curved Lie algebras. Letters in Mathematical Physics, 109(1), 187–224. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11005-018-1106-8
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