Idempotent systems

DOI10.5802/ALCO.159MaRDI QIDQ2031620zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul Terwilliger, Kazumasa Nomura

Publication date 10 June 2021

Published in Algebraic Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14997

zbMATH Keywords

association schemeidempotent systemLeonard pair

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Association schemes, strongly regular graphs (05E30) Orthogonal functions and polynomials, general theory of nontrigonometric harmonic analysis (42C05)

Abstract: In this paper we introduce the notion of an idempotent system. This linear algebraic object is motivated by the structure of an association scheme. We focus on a family of idempotent systems, said to be symmetric. A symmetric idempotent system is an abstraction of the primary module for the subconstituent algebra of a symmetric association scheme. We describe the symmetric idempotent systems in detail. We also consider a class of symmetric idempotent systems, said to be $P$-polynomial and $Q$-polynomial. In the topic of orthogonal polynomials there is an object called a Leonard system. We show that a Leonard system is essentially the same thing as a symmetric idempotent system that is $P$-polynomial and $Q$-polynomial.

Review text

In this work, the notion of an idempotent system is introduced. The linear algebraic object is motivated by the structure of an association scheme. A symmetric idempotent system is an abstraction of the primary module for the subconstituent algebra of a symmetric association scheme. Symmetric idempotent systems are described in detail. In particular, a class of symmetric systems is considered to be \(P\)-polynomial and \(Q\)-polynomial. In the topic of orthogonal polynomials, there is an object called a Leonard system. It is shown that a Leonard system is essentially the same thing as a symmetric idempotent system that is \(P\)-polynomial and \(Q\)-polynomial.

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