On double brackets for marked surfaces

Abstract

We propose a construction of a double quasi-Poisson bracket on the group algebra associated to the twisted fundamental group of a marked oriented surface $(S,P)$ with boundary, where $P$ is a finite set of marked points on the boundary of the surface $S$ such that on every boundary component there is at least one point of $P$. We show that this double bracket is a noncommutative generalization of the well-known Goldman bracket, defined on the space of free homotopy classes of loops on $S$. For an algebra $A$ without polynomial identities, we construct a double bracket on the space of decorated twisted ${\mathrm{GL}}_n(A)$-, symplectic and indefinite orthogonal local systems.

15 pages, 6 figures