A non-crossing standard monomial theory (Q606648)

One of the classical topics in combinatorial commutative algebra is standard monomial theory. It is the construction of a collection of monomials, indexed by semi-standard Young tableaux, which give a \(\mathbb{C}\)-basis for the Plücker algebra. The second author has introduced non-crossing tableaux, objects whose non-nesting analogues are semi-standard Young tableaux. In the paper under review the authors relate non-crossing tableaux to Gelfand-Tsetlin patterns and develop the non-crossing analogue of standard monomial theory. They suggest that their work will be useful in the investigation of the cluster algebra structures on flag varieties and related spaces, and of Leclerc and Zelevinsky's weakly separated sets.