文摘
In his famous theorem (1982), Douglas Leonard characterized the q-Racah polynomials and their relatives in the Askey scheme from the duality property of Q-polynomial distance-regular graphs. In this paper we consider a nonsymmetric (or Laurent) version of the q-Racah polynomials in the above situation. Let Γ denote a Q-polynomial distance-regular graph that contains a Delsarte clique C. Assume that Γ has q -Racah type. Fix a vertex x∈Cx∈C. We partition the vertex set of Γ according to the path-length distance to both x and C . The linear span of the characteristic vectors corresponding to the cells in this partition has an irreducible module structure for the universal double affine Hecke algebra Hˆq of type (C1∨,C1). From this module, we naturally obtain a finite sequence of orthogonal Laurent polynomials. We prove the orthogonality relations for these polynomials, using the Hˆq-module and the theory of Leonard systems. Changing Hˆq by Hˆq−1 we show how our Laurent polynomials are related to the nonsymmetric Askey–Wilson polynomials, and therefore how our Laurent polynomials can be viewed as nonsymmetric q-Racah polynomials.