On the filtration of a free algebra by its associative lower central series.

Abstract: This paper concerns the associative lower central series ideals

M_{i}

of the free algebra

A_{n}

on

n

generators. Namely, we study the successive quotients

N_{i} = M_{i} / M_{i + 1}

, which admit an action of the Lie algebra

W_{n}

of vector fields on

B b b C^{n}

. We bound the degree

| l a m b d a |

of tensor field modules

F_{l} a m b d a

appearing in the Jordan-H"older series of each

N_{i}

, confirming a recent conjecture of Arbesfeld and Jordan. As an application, we compute these decompositions for small

n

and

i

.

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