Higher gauge theories from Lie n-algebras and off-shell covariantization

@article{CarowWatamura2016HigherGT,
  title={Higher gauge theories from Lie n-algebras and off-shell covariantization},
  author={Ursula Carow-Watamura and Marc Andre Heller and Noriaki Ikeda and Yukio Kaneko and Satoshi Watamura},
  journal={Journal of High Energy Physics},
  year={2016},
  volume={2016},
  pages={1-30}
}
A bstractWe analyze higher gauge theories in various dimensions using a supergeometric method based on a differential graded symplectic manifold, called a QP-manifold, which is closely related to the BRST-BV formalism in gauge theories. Extensions of the Lie 2-algebra gauge structure are formulated within the Lie n-algebra induced by the QP-structure. We find that in 5 and 6 dimensions there are special extensions of the gauge algebra. In these cases, a restriction of the gauge symmetry by… 
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