Infinitesimal 2-braidings from 2-shifted Poisson structures

It is shown that every 2-shifted Poisson structure on a finitely generated semi-free commutative differential graded algebra A defines a very explicit infinitesimal 2-braiding on the homotopy 2-category of the symmetric monoidal dg-category of finitely generated semi-free A-dg-modules. This provides a concrete realization, to first order in the deformation parameter ħ, of the abstract deformation quantization results in derived algebraic geometry due to Calaque, Pantev, Toën, Vaquié and Vezzosi. Of particular interest is the case when A is the Chevalley-Eilenberg algebra of a Lie N-algebra, where the braided monoidal deformations developed in this paper may be interpreted as candidates for representation categories of ‘higher quantum groups’.