Noncommutative Poisson vertex algebras and Courant-Dorfman algebras

Abstract

We introduce the notion of double Courant-Dorfman algebra and prove that it satisfies the so-called Kontsevich-Rosenberg principle, that is, a double Courant-Dorfman algebra induces Roytenberg's Courant-Dorfman algebras on the affine schemes parametrizing finite-dimensional representations of a noncommutative algebra. The main example is given by the direct sum of double derivations and noncommutative differential 1-forms, possibly twisted by a closed Karoubi-de Rham 3-form. To show that this basic example satisfies the required axioms, we first prove a variant of the Cartan identity $[L_X,L_Y]=L_{[X,Y]}$ for double derivations and Van den Bergh's double Schouten-Nijenhuis bracket. This new identity, together with noncommutative versions of the other Cartan identities already proved by Crawley-Boevey-Etingof-Ginzburg and Van den Bergh, establish the differential calculus on noncommutative differential forms and double derivations and should be of independent interest. Motivated by applications in the theory of noncommutative Hamiltonian PDEs, we also prove a one-to-one correspondence between double Courant-Dorfman algebras and double Poisson vertex algebras, introduced by De Sole-Kac-Valeri, that are freely generated in degrees 0 and 1.