Two linear transformations each tridiagonal with respect to an eigenbasis of the other (Q5940031)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1623826
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Two linear transformations each tridiagonal with respect to an eigenbasis of the other (English)
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4 March 2002
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D. A. Douglas Leonard established in 1982 that the first and second eigenvalues of P- and Q-polynomial association schemes can be represented by Askey-Wilson polynomials; see \textit{Douglas A. Leonard} [SIAM J. Math. Anal. 13, 656-663 (1982; Zbl 0495.33006)]. The mere statement of this important result takes 10 pages of the Bannai-Itô monograph; see \textit{E. Bannai} and \textit{T. Itô} [Algebraic combinatorics. I: Association schemes (1984; Zbl 0555.05019)]. By considering an algebraic axiomatization of the situation (Leonard systems) Terwilliger manages to clarify and simplify considerably this remarkable result.
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orthogonal polynomials
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association schemes
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Askey-Weilson polynomials
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