Constructive invariant theory was a preoccupation of many nineteenth century mathematicians, but the topic fell out of fashion in the early twentieth century. In the latter twentieth century the topic enjoyed a resurgence, partly due to its connections with the construction of moduli spaces in algebraic geometry and partly due to the development of computational algorithms suitable for implemen...

The purpose of this article is to motivate the study of invariant, and especially conformally invariant, differential pairings. Since a general theory is lacking, this work merely presents some interesting examples of these pairings, explains how they naturally arise, and formulates various associated problems.