Young's orthogonal form for Brauer's centralizer algebra (Q1922486)

Let \(G\) be one of the classical groups \(\text{GL}(N,\mathbb{C})\), \(O(N,\mathbb{C})\), \(\text{Sp}(N,\mathbb{C})\) acting on the vector space \(U=\mathbb{C}^N\). Let \(C(n,N)\) be the centralizer in \(\text{End}(U)^{\otimes n}\) of the image of \(G\). One has a chain of subalgebras (*) \(C(1,N)\subset C(2,N)\subset\dots\subset C(n,N)\). For the classical group \(G\) any irreducible representation of \(C(n,N)\) appears at most once in the restriction of an irreducible representation of \(C(n+1,N)\). Therefore there exists a canonical basis in any irreducible representation \(V\) of \(C(n,N)\). Its vectors are the eigenvectors for the subalgebra \(X(n,N)\) in \(C(n,N)\) generated by the central elements in the members of the chain (*). In the paper under review the author considers the case \(G=O(N,\mathbb{C})\), the orthogonal group and studies \(V\) regarded as representation of the algebra \(B(n,N)\) where \(B(1,N)\subset B(2,N)\subset\dots\subset B(n,N)\) is the chain (*) for the case \(G=O(N,\mathbb{C})\). A description is given for the action of \(B(n,N)\) on the vectors of the canonical basis of \(V\), which turn out to be eigenvectors of certain elements in \(B(n,N)\). Towards the end of this article (\S 4) the author introduces a new algebra \(\text{We}(n,N)\) which is an analogue of the degenerate affine Hecke algebra \(\text{He}(n)\) and has the latter as its quotient.