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Abstract Let X be a simply connected closed oriented manifold of rationally elliptic homotopy type. We prove that the string topology bracket on the $S^1$ -equivariant homology $$ {\overline {\text {H}}}_\ast ^{S^1}({\mathcal {L}} X,{\mathbb {Q}}) $$ of the free loop space of X preserves the Hodge decomposition of $$ {\overline {\text {H}}}_\ast ^{S^1}({\mathcal {L}} X,{\mathbb {Q}}) $$ , making it a bigraded Lie algebra. We deduce this result from a general theorem on derived Poisson structures on the universal enveloping algebras of homologically nilpotent finite-dimensional DG Lie algebras. Our theorem settles a conjecture of [7]. 

Abstract In this paper, we introduce and study representation homology of topological spaces, which is a natural homological extension of representation varieties of fundamental groups. We give an elementary construction of representation homology parallel to the Loday–Pirashvili construction of higher Hochschild homology; in fact, we establish a direct geometric relation between the two theories by proving that the representation homology of the suspension of a (pointed connected) space is isomorphic to its higher Hochschild homology. We also construct some natural maps and spectral sequences relating representation homology to other homology theories associated with spaces (such as Pontryagin algebras, $${{\mathbb{S}}}^1$$-equivariant homology of the free loop space, and stable homology of automorphism groups of f.g. free groups). We compute representation homology explicitly (in terms of known invariants) in a number of interesting cases, including spheres, suspensions, complex projective spaces, Riemann surfaces, and some 3-dimensional manifolds, such as link complements in $${\mathbb{R}}^3$$ and the lens spaces $ L(p,q) $. In the case of link complements, we identify the representation homology in terms of ordinary Hochschild homology, which gives a new algebraic invariant of links in $${\mathbb{R}}^3$$. 

By a fundamental theorem of D. Quillen, there is a natural duality - an instance of general Koszul duality - between differential graded (DG) Lie algebras and DG cocommutative coalgebras defined over a field k of characteristic 0. A cyclic pairing (i.e., an inner product satisfying a natural cyclicity condition) on the cocommutative coalgebra gives rise to an interesting structure on the universal enveloping algebra Ua of the Koszul dual Lie algebra a called the derived Poisson bracket. Interesting special cases of the derived Poisson bracket include the Chas-Sullivan bracket on string topology. We study the derived Poisson brackets on universal enveloping algebras Ua, and their relation to the classical Poisson brackets on the derived moduli spaces DRep_g(a) of representations of a in a finite dimensional reductive Lie algebra g. More specifically, we show that certain derived character maps of a intertwine the derived Poisson bracket with the classical Poisson structure on the representation homology HR(a, g) related to DRep_g(a).