Universality conjecture for the universal bulk-boundary system

Let T\mathcal T be a Poisson BV theory on NN, and let Z(T)\mathcal Z(\mathcal T) be its universal bulk theory. Let

ρ:N×R0N,τ:N×R0R0\rho:N\times\mathbb R_{\geq 0}\to N,\qquad \tau:N\times\mathbb R_{\geq 0}\to\mathbb R_{\geq 0}

be the respective projections. Write ObsZ(T),Tcl\operatorname{Obs}^{\mathrm{cl}}_{\mathcal Z(\mathcal T),\mathcal T} for the factorization algebra of classical observables of the bulk-boundary system (Z(T),T)(\mathcal Z(\mathcal T),\mathcal T). Universality conjecture. The factorization algebra ObsZ(T),Tcl\operatorname{Obs}^{\mathrm{cl}}_{\mathcal Z(\mathcal T),\mathcal T} is terminal among P0\mathbb P_0-factorization algebras F\mathcal F such that: (1) there is an equivalence ObsTclρF\operatorname{Obs}^{\mathrm{cl}}_{\mathcal T}\to\rho_*\mathcal F of P0\mathbb P_0-factorization algebras on NN; and (2) for every UNU\subseteq N, the factorization algebra τ(FU×R0)\tau_*\left(\left.\mathcal F\right|_{U\times\mathbb R_{\geq 0}}\right) on R0\mathbb R_{\geq 0} is stratified locally constant, meaning that inclusions of the forms [0,a)[0,a)[0,a)\subseteq[0,a') and (a,b)(c,d)(a,b)\subseteq(c,d) separately induce equivalences. Equivalently, for every F\mathcal F satisfying (1) and (2), there exists, up to an appropriate notion of homotopy, a map FObsZ(T),Tcl\mathcal F\to\operatorname{Obs}^{\mathrm{cl}}_{\mathcal Z(\mathcal T),\mathcal T} of factorization algebras on N×R0N\times\mathbb R_{\geq 0}. This conjecture is intended to justify the term “universal” in “universal bulk-boundary system”; its resolution would characterize the universal bulk-boundary system by a terminal property among systems with the prescribed boundary observables and stratified-local-constant behavior in the normal direction.

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Eugene Rabinovich, “A Classical Bulk-Boundary Correspondence”, arXiv:2202.12332 (2022).

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