Tridiagonal pairs of Krawtchouk type

Abstract: Let

K

denote an algebraically closed field with characteristic 0 and let

V

denote a vector space over

K

with finite positive dimension. Let

A, A^{*}

denote a tridiagonal pair on

V

with diameter

d

. We say that

A, A^{*}

has Krawtchouk type whenever the sequence

l b r a c e d - 2 i b r a c e_{i = 0}^{d}

is a standard ordering of the eigenvalues of

A

and a standard ordering of the eigenvalues of

A^{*}

. Assume

A, A^{*}

has Krawtchouk type. We show that there exists a nondegenerate symmetric bilinear form

<, >

on

V

such that

< A u, v > = < u, A v >

and

< A^{*} u, v > = < u, A^{*} v >

for

u, v i n V

. We show that the following tridiagonal pairs are isomorphic: (i)

A, A^{*}

; (ii)

- A, - A^{*}

; (iii)

A^{*}, A

; (iv)

- A^{*}, - A

. We give a number of related results and conjectures.

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