Solution

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Use the standard chain ordering of the five simple roots of . A Young diagram of row lengths has highest weight Dynkin labels . A full column of six boxes can be removed because it is the trivial determinant representation. The required data are
In the same order, the Young tableaux are
Each upper index transforms by , and each lower index by . In particular is the complex Adjoint representation. The column of five boxes can be represented either by or by the totally antisymmetric tensor , using the invariant six-index alternating tensor:
Thus it really is the conjugate representation, rather than a second independent six-dimensional choice. Similarly converting the lower index of into five alternating upper indices gives the displayed hook Young diagram; the removed trace would be its full six-box column component.
The dimension counts are
The first two count independent entries of symmetric tensors and antisymmetric tensors; the last removes one trace from a mixed tensor. The hook-content formula independently gives these dimensions from the Young diagrams.

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