Schur-Weyl duality is a powerful concept in representation theory that describes the relationship between the representations of the symmetric group and those of a general linear group acting on a tensor space. This duality reveals how these two groups interact with each other through their respective representations, leading to a decomposition of tensor products and an understanding of how symmetric and alternating groups manifest in algebraic varieties.
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