MSC 2010: 33C15, 33C05, 33C45, 65R10, 20C40The paper contains some new formulas involving the Whittaker functions and arising as the values of some double integrals, which are invariant with respect to the representation of the group SO(2; 1).

This is a survey paper on applications of the representation theory of the symmetric group to the theory of polynomial identities for associative and nonassociative algebras. In §1, we present a detailed review (with complete proofs) of the classical structure theory of the group algebra $𝔽S_n$ of the symmetric group $S_n$ over a field $𝔽$ of characteristic 0 (or $p>n$). The goal is to obtain a constructive version of the isomorphism $\psi :{⨁}_{\lambda }{M}_{d_{\lambda }}\left(𝔽\right)⟶𝔽S_n$ where $\lambda$ is a partition of $n$ and $d_{\lambda }$ counts the standard tableaux of shape $\lambda$....