The split decomposition of a tridiagonal pair

DOI10.1016/J.LAA.2007.01.028MaRDI QIDQ886136zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kazumasa Nomura, Paul Terwilliger

Publication date 26 June 2007

Published in Linear Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612460

zbMATH Keywords

\(q\)-Racah polynomialLeonard pairtridiagonal pair

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Association schemes, strongly regular graphs (05E30) Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) Basic orthogonal polynomials and functions (Askey-Wilson polynomials, etc.) (33D45)

Abstract: Let $K$ denote a field and let $V$ denote a vector space over $K$ with finite positive dimension. We consider a pair of linear transformations $A:VoV$ and $A^{\ast }:VoV$ that satisfy (i)--(iv) below: (i) Each of $A$, $A^{\ast }$ is diagonalizable. (ii) There exists an ordering $V_0,V_1,\mathrm{...},V_d$ of the eigenspaces of $A$ such that $A^{\ast }{V}_{i}subseteq{V}_{i-1}+V_i+V_{i+1}$ for $0leqileqd$, where $V_{-1}=0$, $V_{d+1}=0$. (iii) There exists an ordering $V_0^{\ast },V_1^{\ast },\mathrm{...},V_{delta}^{\ast }$ of the eigenspaces of $A^{\ast }$ such that $A{V}_i^{\ast }subseteq{V}_{i-1}^{\ast }+V_i^{\ast }+V_{i+1}^{\ast }$ for $0leqileqdelta$, where $V_{-1}^{\ast }=0$, $V_{delta+1}^{\ast }=0$. (iv) There is no subspace $W$ of $V$ such that both $AWsubseteqW$, $A^{\ast }WsubseteqW$, other than W=0 and $W=V$. We call such a pair a tridiagonal pair on $V$. In this note we obtain two results. First, we show that each of $A,A^{\ast }$ is determined up to affine transformation by the $V_i$ and $V_i^{\ast }$. Secondly, we characterize the case in which the $V_i$ and $V_i^{\ast }$ all have dimension one. We prove both results using a certain decomposition of $V$ called the split decomposition.

Review text

A certain split decomposition is utilized to find results involving the so-called tridiagonal pair on a vector space \(V\) over a field \(K\) with finite positive dimension. The results are not shown to lead to the polynomials mentioned in the paper. The foundations are laid in this paper.

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