English

Leonard triples and hypercubes

Combinatorics 2008-04-10 v2 Rings and Algebras

Abstract

Let VV denote a vector space over C with finite positive dimension. By a {\em Leonard triple} on VV we mean an ordered triple of linear operators on VV such that for each of these operators there exists a basis of VV with respect to which the matrix representing that operator is diagonal and the matrices representing the other two operators are irreducible tridiagonal. Let DD denote a positive integer and let QDQ_D denote the graph of the DD-dimensional hypercube. Let XX denote the vertex set of QDQ_D and let AA denote the adjacency matrix of QDQ_D. Fix xXx \in X and let AA^* denote the corresponding dual adjacency matrix. Let TT denote the subalgebra of MatX(C)Mat_X(C) generated by A,AA, A^*. We refer to TT as the {\em Terwilliger algebra of} QDQ_D {\em with respect to} xx. The matrices AA and AA^* are related by the fact that 2\imA=AAeAeA2 \im A = A^* A^e - A^e A^* and 2\imA=AeAAAe2 \im A^* = A^e A - A A^e, where 2\imAe=AAAA2 \im A^e = A A^* - A^* A and \im2=1\im^2=-1. We show that the triple AA, AA^*, AeA^e acts on each irreducible TT-module as a Leonard triple. We give a detailed description of these Leonard triples.

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@article{arxiv.0705.0518,
  title  = {Leonard triples and hypercubes},
  author = {Stefko Miklavic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.0518},
  year   = {2008}
}
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