Brackets in representation algebras of Hopf algebras (Q1656211)

Summary: For any graded bialgebras \(A\) and \(B\), we define a commutative graded algebra \(A_B\) representing the functor of \(B\)-representations of \(A\). When \(A\) is a cocommutative graded Hopf algebra and \(B\) is a commutative ungraded Hopf algebra, we introduce a method deriving a Gerstenhaber bracket in \(A_B\) from a Fox pairing in \(A\) and a balanced biderivation in \(B\). Our construction is inspired by Van den Bergh's non-commutative Poisson geometry, and may be viewed as an algebraic generalization of the Atiyah-Bott-Goldman Poisson structures on moduli spaces of representations of surface groups.