arXiv · 0706.1065
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 $\lbrace d-2i\rbrace_{i=0}^d$ 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 $ = < u,Av>$ and $ = < u,A^*v>$ for $u,v\in V$. 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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Tatsuro Ito, Paul Terwilliger. 2007-06-07. Tridiagonal pairs of Krawtchouk type. https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1065
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