Littlewood-Richardson coefficients and integrable tilings (Q1010916)

Summary: We provide direct proofs of product and coproduct formulae for Schur functions where the coefficients (Littlewood--Richardson coefficients) are defined as counting puzzles. The product formula includes a second alphabet for the Schur functions, allowing in particular to recover formulae of [\textit{A.I. Molev} and \textit{B.E. Sagan}, ``A Littlewood-Richardson rule for factorial Schur functions'', Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 351, No.11, 4429--4443 (1999; Zbl 0972.05053)] and [\textit{A. Knutson} and \textit{T. Tao}, ``Puzzles and (equivariant) cohomology of Grassmannians'', Duke Math. J. 119, No.\,2, 221--260 (2003; Zbl 1064.14063)] for factorial Schur functions. The method is based on the quantum integrability of the underlying tiling model.