“…Shortly thereafter they appeared in physics, in the study of statistical mechanical models [4,Section 2]. Up to the present, the representation theory of O q remains an active area of research in mathematics [19,21,22,28,29,30,31,32,33] and physics [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,14,15]. This theory involves a linear algebraic object called a tridiagonal pair [20].…”