Alpha-determinant cyclic modules and Jacobi polynomials

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Abstract: We study the cyclic U(mathfrakgln)-module generated by the l-th power of the alpha-determinant. When l is a non-negative integer, for all but finite exceptional values of alpha, one shows that this cyclic module is isomorphic to the n-th tensor space (Sl(mathbbCn))otimesn of the symmetric l-th tensor space of mathbbCn. If alpha is exceptional, then the structure of the module changes drastically, i.e. some irreducible representations which are the irreducible components of the decomposition of (Sl(mathbbCn))otimesn disappear in the decomposition of the cyclic module. The degeneration of each isotypic component of the cyclic module is described by a matrix whose size is given by a Kostka number and entries are polynomials in alpha with rational coefficients. As a special case, we determine the matrix in a full of the detail for the case where n=2; the matrix becomes a scalar and is essentially given by the classical Jacobi polynomial. Moreover, we prove that these polynomials are unitary.











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