Universal first-order Massey product of a prefactorization algebra (2307.04856v2)

Abstract: This paper studies the universal first-order Massey product of a prefactorization algebra, which encodes higher algebraic operations on the cohomology. Explicit computations of these structures are carried out in the locally constant case, with applications to factorization envelopes on $\mathbb{R}^m$ and a compactification of linear Chern-Simons theory on $\mathbb{R}^2\times \mathbb{S}^1$.