An inequality in character algebras

College

College of Science

Department/Unit

Mathematics and Statistics Department

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source Title

Discrete Mathematics

Volume

264

Issue

1-3

First Page

201

Last Page

209

Publication Date

3-6-2003

Abstract

In this paper, we prove the following: Theorem. Let A=〈A0,A1,..,A(d) 〉 denote a complex character algebra with d2 which is P-polynomial with respect to the ordering A 0,A 1,..,A d of the distinguished basis. Assume that the structure constants p ijh are all nonnegative and the Krein parameters q ijh are all nonnegative. Let θ and θ′ denote eigenvalues of A 1, other than the valency k=k 1. Then the structure constants a 1=p 111 and b 1=p 121 satisfyθ+ k a1+1θ′+ k a1+1-ka1b1 (a1+1) 2.Let E and F denote the primitive idempotents of A associated with θ and θ′, respectively. Equality holds in the above inequality if and only if the Schur product E°F is a scalar multiple of a primitive idempotent of A. The above theorem extends some results of Jurišić, Koolen, Terwilliger, and the present author. These people previously showed the above theorem holds for those character algebras isomorphic to the Bose-Mesner algebra of a distance-regular graph. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1016/S0012-365X(02)00560-5

Disciplines

Mathematics

Keywords

Association schemes (Combinatorial analysis); Representations of Lie algebras

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