The \mathbb Z₃-Symmetric Down-Up algebra

Abstract: In 1998, Georgia Benkart and Tom Roby introduced the down-up algebra

m a t h c a l A

. The algebra

m a t h c a l A

is associative, noncommutative, and infinite-dimensional. It is defined by two generators

A, B

and two relations called the down-up relations. In the present paper, we introduce the

m a t h b b Z_{3}

-symmetric down-up algebra

m a t h b b A

. We define

m a t h b b A

by generators and relations. There are three generators

A, B, C

and any two of these satisfy the down-up relations. We describe how

m a t h b b A

is related to some familiar algebras in the literature, such as the Weyl algebra, the Lie algebras

m a t h f r a k {s l}_{2}

and

m a t h f r a k {s l}_{3}

, the

m a t h f r a k {s l}_{3}

loop algebra, the Kac-Moody Lie algebra

A_{2}^{(1)}

, the

q

-Weyl algebra, the quantized enveloping algebra

U_{q} (m a t h f r a k {s l}_{2})

, and the quantized enveloping algebra

U_{q} (A_{2}^{(1)})

. We give some open problems and conjectures.

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