The Hadamard-closure conjecture for the subalgebra of a Q-polynomial graph

Let Γ=(X,R)\Gamma=(X,\mathcal R) be a finite, undirected, connected graph without loops or multiple edges, with diameter D1D\geq 1, and let AA be its adjacency matrix. An ordering {Vi}i=0d\{V_i\}_{i=0}^d of the eigenspaces of AA is Q-polynomial if

=0iV==0i(V1)(0id).\sum_{\ell=0}^i V_\ell=\sum_{\ell=0}^i (V_1)^{\circ \ell}\qquad (0\leq i\leq d).

The graph Γ\Gamma is Q-polynomial if it has at least one such ordering. Let MM be the subalgebra of MatX(R)\operatorname{Mat}_X(\mathbb R) generated by AA. Hadamard-closure conjecture. If Γ\Gamma is Q-polynomial, then

BCMB\circ C\in M

for all B,CMB,C\in M. This would extend a central closure property of the subconstituent algebra from distance-regular graphs to the broader class of Q-polynomial graphs, whose distance-regularity is not assumed here; the conjecture's status is not determined in the source.

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Paul Terwilliger, “Distance-regular graphs, the subconstituent algebra, and the Q-polynomial property”, arXiv:2207.07747 (2022).

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