The [formula omitted]-symmetric down-up algebra.

In 1998, Georgia Benkart and Tom Roby introduced the down-up algebra A. The algebra 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 Z 3 -symmetric down-up algebra A. We define 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 A is related to some familiar algebras in the literature, such as the Weyl algebra, the Lie algebras sl 2 and sl 3 , the sl 3 loop algebra, the Kac-Moody Lie algebra A 2 (1) , the q -Weyl algebra, the quantized enveloping algebra U q (sl 2) , and the quantized enveloping algebra U q (A 2 (1)). We give some open problems and conjectures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]