Homotopies for Lagrangian field theory

Consider the variational bicomplex for $\mathcal{E}$ the space of sections of a graded, affine bundle.

Local functionals $\mathcal{F}$ are defined as an equivalence class of density-valued functionals, which represent Lagrangian densities.

A choice of a $k$-symplectic local form $\omega$ on $\mathcal{E}$ induces a Lie$[k]$ algebra structure on (Hamiltonian) local functionals $(\mathcal{F}_{\mathrm{ham}},\{\cdot,\cdot\}_{\mathrm{ham}})$.

For any $\omega$ and any choice of a cohomological vector field $Q$ compatible with $\omega$, we build three explicit $L_\infty$ algebras on a resolution of $\mathcal{F}_{\mathrm{ham}}$, which are all $L_\infty$ quasi-isomorphic to a dgL$[k]$a $(\mathcal{F}_{\mathrm{ham}},d_{\mathrm{ham}},\{\cdot,\cdot\}_{\mathrm{ham}})$.

In particular, one of our equivalent $L_\infty$ algebras is a dgL$[k]$ algebra.

In the case $k=-1$, this provides an explicit lift of the standard Batalin--Vilkovisky framework to local forms enriched by the $L_\infty$ structure, in terms of local homotopies, which interprets the modified classical master equation as a Maurer--Cartan equation for the distinguished dgL$[k]$a we construct.

We conjecture that the data of a lift to local forms of a BV theory contains a homotopy moment map on the cohomology of the Koszul complex of the underlying Lagrangian field theory.