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arxiv: 2506.09869 · v2 · pith:QCVK3SDPnew · submitted 2025-06-11 · ✦ hep-th · math-ph· math.MP

Off-shell double copy theories in BV

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keywords theorydoublegravitycopychern-simonsconstructiongaugekodaira-spencer
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We present a construction of the double copy for gauge theories that exhibit off-shell color-kinematics duality within the Batalin-Vilkovitsky (BV) formalism. As illustrative examples, we consider the double copies of Chern-Simons theory, four-dimensional BF theory, and two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory, and we discuss possible gravity interpretations for these cases. We formalize the construction and demonstrate that Kodaira-Spencer gravity, K\"ahler gravity, and their generalizations, fit naturally within this framework. In particular, Kodaira-Spencer gravity emerges as a gauge theory describing deformations of generalized complex structures, while the double copy of Chern-Simons theory captures the deformation of the Courant bracket.

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