TITLE: The algebro-geometric counterpart of the Dijkgraaf-Witten model
QUESTION [9 upvotes]: Can the Dikgraaf-Witten model for a finite gauge group $G$ [Robbert Dijkgraaf and Edward Witten, Topological Gauge Theories and Group Cohomology, Commun. Math. Phys. 129 (1990), 393] be described in terms of the geometry of moduli spaces $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n,\beta}([*//G])$ of stable maps to the stack $[*//G]$? I strongly suspect the answer is yes, in view of the classical relation between 3-dimensional topological quantum field theories and complex analytic 2-dimensional modular functors, but I'm unaware of rigorous results in this direction.

REPLY [6 votes]: This has been done, in a variety of related ways.  A lot of the difficulty is in defining an appropriate notion of a "stable" map to [pt/G].
The earliest mathematical work I know of is Chen & Ruan's "orbifold cohomology", which is done in the symplectic category.  (Caveats:  Abramovich's lecture notes on orbifold GW theory quote a 1996 letter from Kontsevich, who outlines a lot of the basic ideas in 2 pages.  Also, string theorists were looking at non-topological sigma models to orbifolds at least as far back as Dixon, Harvey, Vafa, & Witten's 1985 papers.)  
In algebraic geometry, this stuff has been studied by Jarvis, Kaufmann, & Kimura, who focused on G-bundles, and by Abramovich, Graber, & Vistoli, who figured out how to deal with D-M stacks.
(You can also carry out these constructions in K-theory for finite-dimensional Lie groups.  See, for example, Frenkel, Teleman, & [cough].)