Tridiagonal pairs and the quantum affine algebra U_q(sl₂).

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DOI10.1007/S11139-006-0242-4zbMATH Open1128.16028arXivmath/0310042OpenAlexW1823994934MaRDI QIDQ2369902FDOQ2369902

Tatsuro Ito, Paul Terwilliger

Publication date: 21 June 2007

Published in: The Ramanujan Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let K denote a field and let V denote a vector space over K with finite positive dimension. By definition a Leonard pair on V is a pair of linear transformations A:VoV and A*:VoV that satisfy the following two conditions: (i) There exists a basis for V with respect to which the matrix representing A is irreducible tridiagonal and the matrix representing A* is diagonal. (ii) There exists a basis for V with respect to which the matrix representing A is diagonal and the matrix representing A* is irreducible tridiagonal. There is a correspondence between Leonard pairs and a family of orthogonal polynomials consisting of the q-Racah and some related polynomials of the Askey scheme. In this paper we discuss a mild generalization of a Leonard pair which we call a tridiagonal pair. We will show how certain tridiagonal pairs are associated with finite dimensional modules for the quantum affine algebra Uq(hatsl2).


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0310042




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