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We observe that the string field theory actions for the topological sigma models describe higher or categorified Chern-Simons theories. These theories yield dynamical equations for connective structures on higher principal bundles. As a special case, we consider holomorphic higher Chern-Simons theory on the ambitwistor space of four-dimensional space-time. In particular, we propose a higher ambitwistor space action functional for maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory.
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Sämann, C., Wolf, M. Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory as higher Chern-Simons theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 111 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2017)111
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