Let $K$ denote an algebraically closed field and let $V$ denote a vector space over $K$ with finite positive dimension. We consider a pair of linear transformations $A:V \to V$ and $A^*:V \to V$ that satisfy the following conditions: (i) each of $A,A^*$ is diagonalizable; (ii) there exists an ordering $\lbrace V_i\rbrace_{i=0}^d$ of the eigenspaces of $A$ such that $A^* V_i \subseteq V_{i-1} + V_{i} + V_{i+1}$ for $0 \leq i \leq d$, where $V_{-1}=0$ and $V_{d+1}=0$; (iii) there exists an ordering $\lbrace V^*_i\rbrace_{i=0}^δ$ of the eigenspaces of $A^*$ such that $A V^*_i \subseteq V^*_{i-1} + V^*_{i} + V^*_{i+1}$ for $0 \leq i \leq δ$, where $V^*_{-1}=0$ and $V^*_{δ+1}=0$; (iv) there is no subspace $W$ of $V$ such that $AW \subseteq W$, $A^* W \subseteq W$, $W \neq 0$, $W \neq V$. We call such a pair a {\it tridiagonal pair} on $V$. It is known that $d=δ$. For $0 \leq i \leq d$ let $θ_i$ (resp. $θ^*_i$) denote the eigenvalue of $A$ (resp. $A^*$) associated with $V_i$ (resp. $V^*_i$). The pair $A,A^*$ is said to have {\it $q$-Racah type} whenever $θ_i = a + b q^{2i-d}+ c q^{d-2i}$ and $θ^*_i = a^* + b^*q^{2i-d}+c^*q^{d-2i}$ for $0 \leq i \leq d$, where $q, a,b,c,a^*,b^*,c^*$ are scalars in $K$ with $q,b,c,b^*,c^*$ nonzero and $q^2 \not\in \lbrace 1,-1\rbrace$. This type is the most general one. We classify up to isomorphism the tridiagonal pairs over $K$ that have $q$-Racah type. Our proof involves the representation theory of the quantum affine algebra $U_q(\widehat{\mathfrak{sl}}_2)$.
We describe the Bockting operator $ψ$ for a tridiagonal pair of $q$-Racah type, in terms of a certain $L$-operator for the quantum loop algebra $U_q(L({\mathfrak {sl}}_2))$.
Let $\mathbb F$ denote a field, and let $V$ denote a vector space over $\mathbb F$ with finite positive dimension. We consider an ordered pair of $\mathbb F$-linear maps $A: V \to V$ and $A^*:V\to V$ such that (i) each of $A,A^*$ is diagonalizable; (ii) there exists an ordering $\lbrace V_i\rbrace_{i=0}^d$ of the eigenspaces of $A$ such that $A^* V_i \subseteq V_{i-1} + V_i+ V_{i+1}$ for $0 \leq i \leq d$, where $V_{-1} = 0$ and $V_{d+1}= 0$; (iii) there exists an ordering $\lbrace V^*_i\rbrace_{i=0}^δ$ of the eigenspaces of $A^*$ such that $A V^*_i \subseteq V^*_{i-1} + V^*_i+ V^*_{i+1} $ for…
Let $K$ denote a field and let $V$ denote a vector space over $K$ with finite positive dimension. We consider an ordered pair of linear transformations $A:V\to V$ and $A^*:V\to V$ that satisfy conditions (i), (ii) below. (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. We call such a pair a {\it Leonard pair} on $V$. We discuss a co…
We discuss a connection between the algebra $U_q({\mathfrak{sl}_2})$ and the tridiagonal pairs of $q$-Racah type. To describe the connection, let $x,y^{\pm 1},z$ denote the equitable generators for $U_q({\mathfrak{sl}_2})$. Let $U^\vee_q$ denote the subalgebra of $U_q({\mathfrak{sl}_2})$ generated by $x,y^{-1},z$. Using a tridiagonal pair of $q$-Racah type we construct two finite-dimensional $U^\vee_q$-modules. The constructions yield two nonstandard presentations of $U^\vee_q$ by generators and relations. These presentations are investigated in detail.
There is a concept in linear algebra called a tridiagonal pair. The concept was motivated by the theory of $Q$-polynomial distance-regular graphs. We give a tutorial introduction to tridiagonal pairs, working with a special case as a concrete example. The special case is called totally bipartite, or TB. Starting from first principles, we give an elementary but comprehensive account of TB tridiagonal pairs. The following topics are discussed: (i) the notion of a TB tridiagonal system; (ii) the eigenvalue array; (iii) the standard basis and matrix representations; (iv) the intersection numbers; …
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 $A:V\to V$ and $A^*:V\to V$ 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 pa…
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 $A:V\to V$ and $A^*:V\to V$ that satisfy the following two conditions: There exists a basis for $V$ with respect to which the matrix representing $A$ is irreducible tridiagonal and the matrix representing $A^*$ is diagonal. There exists a basis for $V$ with respect to which the matrix representing $A^*$ is irreducible tridiagonal and the matrix representing $A$ is diagonal. We call such a pair a Leonard pair on $V$. We give a correspondence between Leo…
Motivated by investigations of the tridiagonal pairs of linear transformations, we introduce the augmented tridiagonal algebra ${\mathcal T}_q$. This is an infinite-dimensional associative ${\mathbb C}$-algebra with 1. We classify the finite-dimensional irreducible representations of ${\mathcal T}_q$. All such representations are explicitly constructed via embeddings of ${\mathcal T}_q$ into the $U_q(sl_2)$-loop algebra. As an application, tridiagonal pairs over ${\mathbb C}$ are classified in the case where $q$ is not a root of unity.
The concept of cyclic tridiagonal pairs is introduced, and explicit examples are given. For a fairly general class of cyclic tridiagonal pairs with cyclicity N, we associate a pair of `divided polynomials'. The properties of this pair generalize the ones of tridiagonal pairs of Racah type. The algebra generated by the pair of divided polynomials is identified as a higher-order generalization of the Onsager algebra. It can be viewed as a subalgebra of the q-Onsager algebra for a proper specialization at q the primitive 2Nth root of unity. Orthogonal polynomials beyond the Leonard duality are re…
A Leonard pair is a pair of diagonalizable linear transformations of a finite-dimensional vector space, each of which acts in an irreducible tridiagonal fashion on an eigenbasis for the other one. Let $\mathbb F$ denote an algebraically closed field, and fix a nonzero $q \in \mathbb F$ that is not a root of unity. The universal double affine Hecke algebra (DAHA) $\hat{H}_q$ of type $(C_1^\vee,C_1)$ is the associative $\mathbb F$-algebra defined by generators $\lbrace t_i^{\pm 1}\rbrace_{i=0}^3$ and relations (i) $t_it_i^{-1}=t_i^{-1}t_i=1$; (ii) $t_i+t_i^{-1}$ is central; (iii) $t_0t_1t_2t_3 =…
Let $K$ denote a field, and let $V$ denote a vector space over $K$ with finite positive dimension. Consider a pair of linear transformations $A:V\to V$ and $A^*:V\to V$ that satisfy both conditions below: (i) There exists a basis for $V$ with respect to which the matrix representing $A$ is diagonal, and the matrix representing $A^*$ is irreducible tridiagonal. (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. Such a pair is called a Leonard pair on $V$. In this paper we introduce a mild…
A tridiagonal pair is an ordered pair of diagonalizable linear maps on a nonzero finite-dimensional vector space, that each act on the eigenspaces of the other in a block-tridiagonal fashion. We consider a tridiagonal pair $(A, A^*)$ of $q$-Serre type; for such a pair the maps $A$ and $A^*$ satisfy the $q$-Serre relations. There is a linear map $K$ in the literature that is used to describe how $A$ and $A^*$ are related. We investigate a pair of linear maps $B=A$ and $B^* = tA^* + (1-t)K$, where $t$ is any scalar. Our goal is to find a necessary and sufficient condition on $t$ for the pair $(B…
Let K denote an algebraically closed field with characteristic 0. Let V denote a vector space over K with finite positive dimension and let A,B denote a tridiagonal pair on V. We make an assumption about this pair. Let q denote a nonzero scalar in K which is not a root of unity. We assume A and B satisfy the q-Serre relations (i) A^3B - [3]A^2BA + [3]ABA^2 - BA^3=0; (ii) B^3A - [3]B^2AB + [3]BAB^2 - AB^3=0, where [3]=(q^3-q^{-3})/(q-q^{-1}). Let (ρ_0, ρ_1,...,ρ_d) denote the shape vector for A,B. We show the entries in this shape vector are bounded above by binomial coefficients. Indeed we sho…
Let $K$ denote a field and let $V$ denote a vector space over $K$ with finite positive dimension. We consider an ordered pair of linear transformations $A:V\to V$ and $A^*:V\to V$ that satisfy conditions (i), (ii) below. (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. We call such a pair a {\it Leonard pair} on $V$. The structure o…
Let $\K$ denote a field and let $V$ denote a vector space over $\K$ with finite positive dimension. We consider an ordered pair of linear transformations $A:V\to V$ and $B:V\to V$ which satisfy both (i), (ii) below. (i) There exists a basis for $V$ with respect to which the matrix representing $A$ is irreducible tridiagonal and the matrix representing $B$ is diagonal; (ii) There exists a basis for $V$ with respect to which the matrix representing $A$ is diagonal and the matrix representing $B$ is irreducible tridiagonal. We call such a pair a Leonard pair on $V$. We introduce two canonical for…
Let $K$ denote a field and let $V$ denote a vector space over $K$ with finite positive dimension. We consider an ordered pair of linear transformations $A:V\to V$ and $A^*:V\to V$ that satisfy conditions (i), (ii) below. (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. We call such a pair a {\it Leonard pair} on $V$. Let $A,A^*$ den…
A family of tridiagonal pairs which appear in the context of quantum integrable systems is studied in details. The corresponding eigenvalue sequences, eigenspaces and the block tridiagonal structure of their matrix realizations with respect the dual eigenbasis are described. The overlap functions between the two dual basis are shown to satisfy a coupled system of recurrence relations and a set of discrete second-order $q-$difference equations which generalize the ones associated with the Askey-Wilson orthogonal polynomials with a discrete argument. Normalizing the fundamental solution to unity…
In this paper we further develop the connection between tridiagonal pairs and the q-tetrahedron algebra $\boxtimes_q$. Let V denote a finite dimensional vector space over an algebraically closed field and let A, A^* denote a tridiagonal pair on V. For $0 \leq i \leq d$ let $θ_i$ (resp. $θ^*_i$) denote a standard ordering of the eigenvalues of A (resp. A^*). Fix a nonzero scalar q which is not a root of unity. T. Ito and P. Terwilliger have shown that when $θ_i = q^{2i-d}$ and $θ^*_i = q^{d-2i}$ there exists an irreducible $\boxtimes_q$-module structure on V such that the $\boxtimes_q$ generato…
The $q$-Onsager algebra $\mathcal O_q$ is defined by two generators $A$, $A^*$ and two relations, called the $q$-Dolan/Grady relations. Recently P. Baseilhac and S. Kolb found an automorphism $L$ of $\mathcal O_q$, that fixes $A$ and sends $A^*$ to a linear combination of $A^*$, $A^2A^*$, $AA^*A$, $A^*A^2$. Let $V$ denote an irreducible $\mathcal O_q$-module of finite dimension at least two, on which each of $A$, $A^*$ is diagonalizable. It is known that $A$, $A^*$ act on $V$ as a tridiagonal pair of $q$-Racah type, giving access to four familiar elements $K$, $B$, $K^\downarrow$, $B^\downarro…
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 $A:V \to V$ and $A^*:V \to V$ that satisfy (i), (ii) below: (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 irreducible tridiagonal and the matrix representing $A$ is diagonal. We call such a pair a {\em Leonard pair} on $V$. It is known that there exists a …
Let K denote a field and let $V$ denote a vector space over K with finite positive dimension. We consider an ordered pair of linear transformations $A:V\to V$ and $A^*:V\to V$ which satisfy the following two properties: (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 irreducible tridiagonal and the matrix representing $A$ is diagonal. We call such a pair a Leonard pair on $V$. Referring to the above…
Let $K$ denote a field and let $V$ denote a vector space over $K$ with finite positive dimension. By a Leonard pair on $V$ we mean an ordered pair of linear transformations $A:V \to V$ and $A^*:V \to V$ 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 irreducible tridiagonal and the matrix representing $A$ is diagonal. Let $v^*_0, ..., v^*_d$ (resp. $v_0, ..…
Let $K$ denote an algebraically closed field with characteristic 0, and let $q$ denote a nonzero scalar in $K$ that is not a root of unity. Let $A_q$ denote the unital associative $K$-algebra defined by generators $x,y$ and relations x^3y-[3]_q x^2yx +[3]_q xyx^2 -yx^3=0, y^3x-[3]_q y^2xy +[3]_q yxy^2 -xy^3=0, where $[3]_q = (q^3-q^{-3})/(q-q^{-1})$. We classify up to isomorphism the finite-dimensional irreducible $A_q$-modules on which neither of $x,y$ is nilpotent. We discuss how these modules are related to tridiagonal pairs.
Recently Sarah Bockting-Conrad introduced the double lowering operator $ψ$ for a tridiagonal pair. Motivated by $ψ$ we consider the following problem about polynomials. Let $\mathbb F$ denote an algebraically closed field. Let $x$ denote an indeterminate, and let $\mathbb F\lbrack x \rbrack$ denote the algebra consisting of the polynomials in $x$ that have all coefficients in $\mathbb F$. Let $N$ denote a positive integer or $\infty$. Let $\lbrace a_i\rbrace_{i=0}^{N-1}$, $\lbrace b_i\rbrace_{i=0}^{N-1}$ denote scalars in $\mathbb F$ such that $\sum_{h=0}^{i-1} a_h \not= \sum_{h=0}^{i-1} b_h$ …
Let $\mathbb{F}$ denote an algebraically closed field with characteristic $0$, and let $q$ denote a nonzero scalar in $\mathbb{F}$ that is not a root of unity. Let $\mathbb{Z}_4$ denote the cyclic group of order $4$. Let $\square_q$ denote the unital associative $\mathbb{F}$-algebra defined by generators $\{x_i\}_{i\in \mathbb{Z}_4}$ and relations \begin{gather*} \frac{qx_ix_{i+1}-q^{-1}x_{i+1}x_i}{q-q^{-1}}=1, \\ x_i^3x_{i+2}-[3]_qx_i^2x_{i+2}x_i+[3]_qx_ix_{i+2}x_i^2-x_{i+2}x_i^3=0, \end{gather*} where $[3]_q=(q^3-q^{-3})/(q-q^{-1})$. There exists an automorphism $ρ$ of $\square_q$ that sends…
