On an n-ary generalization of the Lie representation

We continue our study, initiated in our prior work with Richard Stanley, of the representation of the symmetric group on the multilinear component of an n-ary generalization of the free Lie algebra known as the free Fillipov n-algebra with k brackets. Our ultimate aim is to determine the multiplicities of the irreducible representations in this representation. This had been done for the ordinary Lie representation ($n=2$ case) by Kraskiewicz and Weyman. The $k=2$ case was handled in our prior work, where the representation was shown to be isomorphic to S^2ⁿ⁻¹1. In this paper, for general n and k, we obtain decomposition results that enable us to prove that in the $k=3$ case, the representation is isomorphic to S^3ⁿ⁻¹1 ⊕ S^3ⁿ⁻²21².