Around Van den Bergh's double brackets for different bimodule structures

Abstract

A double Poisson bracket, in the sense of M. Van den Bergh, is an operation on an associative algebra A which induces a Poisson bracket on each representation space Rep(A, n) in an explicit way. In this note, we study the impact of changing the Leibniz rules underlying a double bracket. This change amounts to make a suitable choice of A-bimodule structure on A ⊗ A. In the most important cases, we describe how the choice of A-bimodule structure fixes an analogue to Jacobi identity, and we obtain induced Poisson brackets on representation spaces. The present theory also encodes a formalisation of the widespread tensor notation used to write Poisson brackets of matrices in mathematical physics.