For semisimple Lie algebra targets
For discrete group targets
For discrete 2-group targets
For Lie 2-algebra targets
For targets extending the super Poincare Lie algebra
(such as the supergravity Lie 3-algebra, the supergravity Lie 6-algebra)
Chern-Simons-supergravity
for higher abelian targets
for symplectic Lie n-algebroid targets
for the -structure on the BRST complex of the closed string:
higher dimensional Chern-Simons theory
topological AdS7/CFT6-sector
theory (physics), model (physics)
Axiomatizations
Tools
Structural phenomena
Types of quantum field thories
A Yetter model is a sigma-model quantum field theory whose target space is a discrete 2-groupoid and whose background gauge field is a circle 4-bundle.
Together with the Dijkgraaf-Witten model these form the first two steps in filtering of target spaces by homotopy type truncation of ∞-Chern-Simons theory with discrete target spaces. It is hence also an example of a 4d Chern-Simons theory.
Fix
a discrete 2-group; write for its delooping 2-groupoid;
a characteristic class with coefficients in the circle 4-group. This is equivalently a cocycle in degree group cohomology
The Yetter-model is the ∞-Dijkgraaf-Witten theory induced by this data.
The model without a background gauge field/cocycle was considered in
The effect of having a nontrivial group 4-cocycle was considered (but now only on a 1-group) in
D. Birmingham, M. Rakowski, On Dijkgraaf-Witten Type Invariants, Lett. Math. Phys. 37 (1996), 363.
Marco Mackaay, Spherical 2-categories and 4-manifold invariants, Adv. Math. 153 (2000), no. 2, 353–390. (arXiv:math/9805030) .
The reinterpretation of the “state sum” equation used in the above publications as giving homomorphisms of simplicial sets/topological spaces is given in
and then extended to colorings in homotopy n-types in
See also
which has some remarks about higher (2-)group cocycles towards the end.