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
Recommended Citation
Pascasio, A. A. (2003). An inequality in character algebras. Discrete Mathematics, 264 (1-3), 201-209. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0012-365X(02)00560-5
Disciplines
Mathematics
Keywords
Association schemes (Combinatorial analysis); Representations of Lie algebras
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