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What is the Lie superalgebra generated by permutations?

Consider the group algebra of the symmetric group $\mathbb{C}S_n$. Then there is a corresponding Lie algebra $\mathfrak{L}(S_n)$ defined by $$[\sigma, \tau] = \sigma\circ\tau - \tau\circ\sigma,$$ ...