Laplacian operators and Radon transforms on Grassmann graphs

Details Laplacian operators and Radon transforms on Grassmann graphs Laplacian operators and Radon transforms on Grassmann graphs

2004-04-01

arxiv.org/abs/math/0404019v2

Mathematics

Combinatorics

32 pages

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Let $\Omega$ be a vector space over a finite field with q elements. Let G denote the general linear group of endomorphisms of $\Omega$ and let us consider the left regular representation $\rho: G \to B(L_2(X))$ associated to the natural action of G on the set X of linear subspaces of $\Omega$. In this paper we study a natural basis B of the algebra $End_{G}(L_2(X))$ of intertwining maps on $L_2(X)$. By using a Laplacian operator on Grassmann graphs, we identify the kernels in B as solutions of a basic hypergeometric difference equation. This provides two expressions for these kernels. One in terms of the q-Hahn polynomials and the other by means of a Rodrigues type formula. Finally, we obtain a useful product formula for the mappings in B. We give two different proofs. One uses the theory of classical hypergeometric polynomials and the other is supported by a characterization of spherical functions in finite symmetric spaces. Both proofs require the use of certain associated Radon transforms.

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