Modular vector fields in non-commutative geometry

Abstract

We construct a non-commutative analogue of the modular vector field on a Poisson manifold for a given pair of a double bracket and a connection on a space of 1-forms. The key ingredient, the triple divergence map, is directly constructed from a connection on a linear category to deal with multiple base points. As an application, we give an algebraic description of the framed, groupoid version of Turaev's loop operation $\hat{I}¼$ similar to the one obtained by Alekseev-Kawazumi-Kuno-Naef and the author.

23 pages, 4 figures. The version submitted to the Journal of Geometry and Physics