Authors: Steffen Koenig (University of Bielefeld, http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/~koenig/), Inger Heidi Slungard (NTNU Trondheim) and Changchang Xi (Beijing Normal University) Title: Double centralizer properties, dominant dimension and tilting modules Status: preprint Abstract: We develop a method for proving double centralizer properties by ring theoretic structures. As applications we get short and computation-free proofs for both classical and quantized Schur-Weyl duality and for Soergel's 'Endomorphismensatz' for category $\cal O$.