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Tridiagonal pairs of Krawtchouk type

Rings and Algebras 2007-06-08 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

Let KK denote an algebraically closed field with characteristic 0 and let VV denote a vector space over KK with finite positive dimension. Let A,AA,A^* denote a tridiagonal pair on VV with diameter dd. We say that A,AA,A^* has Krawtchouk type whenever the sequence {d2i}i=0d\lbrace d-2i\rbrace_{i=0}^d is a standard ordering of the eigenvalues of AA and a standard ordering of the eigenvalues of AA^*. Assume A,AA,A^* has Krawtchouk type. We show that there exists a nondegenerate symmetric bilinear form <,>< , > on VV such that <Au,v>=<u,Av><Au,v>= < u,Av> and <Au,v>=<u,Av><A^*u,v >= < u,A^*v> for u,vVu,v\in V. We show that the following tridiagonal pairs are isomorphic: (i) A,AA,A^*; (ii) A,A-A,-A^*; (iii) A,AA^*,A; (iv) A,A-A^*,-A. We give a number of related results and conjectures.

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@article{arxiv.0706.1065,
  title  = {Tridiagonal pairs of Krawtchouk type},
  author = {Tatsuro Ito and Paul Terwilliger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.1065},
  year   = {2007}
}
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