The algebra of difference operators associated to a family of orthogonal polynomials (Q420760)

The paper belongs to the field of the theory of matrix valued orthogonal polynomials as associated to difference operators, i.e., satisfying some difference equations. Starting from a given weight matrix \(W\) and a sequence \(\{P_n\}_n\) of orthogonal with respect \(W\) matrix polynomials, the author introduces the algebra \(D(W)\) of the difference operators of the form \[ D = \sum_s^r s_iF_i \] satisfying \[ D(P_n) = \Gamma_nP_n\;,\;n\geq 0\;,\;s\leq 0\leq r\;,\;\Gamma_n\in C^{n\times n}, \] where \(s_i\) are shift operators defined by \(s_i(f)=f(x+i)\). The coefficients \(F_i\) are matrix polynomials of degree \(\leq r-s\) such that \[ dgr(\sum_s^ri^kF_i)\leq k\;,\;k=0,1,\dots,r-s \]