Hermite reciprocity

In mathematics, Hermite's law of reciprocity, introduced by Hermite (1854), states that the degree m covariants of a binary form of degree n correspond to the degree n covariants of a binary form of degree m. In terms of representation theory it states that the representations Sm Sn C2 and Sn Sm C2 of GL2 are isomorphic.

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