“…In the present paper, we introduce a family of Leonard pairs called near-We just mentioned how Leonard pairs are related to orthogonal polynomials. Leonard pairs have applications to many other areas of mathematics and physics, such as Lie theory [3,21,22,25,29,37], quantum groups [1,2,[13][14][15][26][27][28], spin models [17][18][19]41], double affine Hecke algebras [23,24,30,31,38], partially ordered sets [33,34,44,52], and exactly solvable models in statistical mechanics [6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. For more information about Leonard pairs and related topics, see [4,37,39,40,42,43,45,47,51].…”