(1) Department of Applied Mathematics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, P.R. China;(2) Present address: Dipartimento di Matematica, Università del Salento, Lecce-Arnesano, P.O. Box 193, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Abstract:
Eigenvectors of the tridiagonal matrices of Sylvester type are explicitly determined. These are closely related to orthogonal polynomials named after Krawtchouk, (dual) Hahn and Racah as well as to q-Racah polynomials.