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G. Benkart and T. Roby: “Down-up algebras,” J. Algebra 209 : 1 (November 1998), pp. 305–344. An addendum to this article was published in J. Algebra 213:1 (1999). MR 1652138 Zbl 0922.17006 ArXiv math/9803159 article

The algebra generated by the down and up operators on a differential or uniform partially ordered set (poset) encodes essential enumerative and structural properties of the poset. Motivated by the algebras generated by the down and up operators on posets, we introduce here a family of infinite-dimensional associative algebras called down-algebras. We show that down-up algebras exhibit many of the important features of the universal enveloping algebra \( U(\mathfrak{sl}_2) \) of the Lie algebra \( \mathfrak{sl}_2 \) including a Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt type basis and a well-behaved representation theory. We investigate the structure and representations of down-up algebras and focus especially on Verma modules, highest weight representations, and category \( \mathscr{O} \) modules for them. We calculate the exact expressions for all the weights, since that information has proven to be particularly useful in determining structural results about posets.

G. Benkart and T. Roby: “Addendum: ‘Down-up algebras’,” J. Algebra 213 : 1 (1999), pp. 378. Addendum to an article published in J. Algebra 209:1 (1998). MR 1674692 article