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We will try to provide a brief and elementary description of some of the founding ideas of the characteristic-zero theory as well as of the characteristic-free theory of vector invariants for the classical groups GL(d), SL(d), S p 2m , O(d).
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Brini, A. (2009). A Glimpse of Vector Invariant Theory. The Points of View of Weyl, Rota, De Concini and Procesi, and Grosshans. In: Damiani, E., D’Antona, O., Marra, V., Palombi, F. (eds) From Combinatorics to Philosophy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88753-1_3
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