Some bijective correspondences involving domino tableaux (Q1572759)

Summary: We define a number of new combinatorial operations on skew semistandard domino tableaux that complement constructions defined by C.~Carré and B.~Leclerc, and clarify the link with ordinary skew semistandard tableaux and the Littlewood-Richardson rule. These operations are: (1)~a bijection between semistandard domino tableaux and certain pairs of ordinary tableaux of the same weight that together fill the same shape, and which determine the ``plactic class'' of the domino tableau; (2)~a weight preserving reversible transformation of domino tableaux into ordinary tableaux of a related shape (the correspondence involves 2-quotients) mapping the subset of Yamanouchi domino tableaux onto that of the Littlewood-Richardson tableaux; (3)~a correspondence between Yamanouchi domino tableaux of shape \(\lambda\) and weight \(\mu\) and Yamanouchi domino tableaux of shape \(\mu'\) and weight \(\lambda\), where \(\mu'\) is \(\mu\) scaled horizontally and vertically by a factor~\(2\). The essential properties of (1)~and~(2) are obtained by proving their commutation with the ``coplactic'' (or crystal) operations (which for domino tableaux were defined by Carré and Leclerc). Construction~(2) allows algorithmic separation of the Littlewood-Richardson tableaux describing the decomposition of the tensor square of a general linear group representation into contributions to its symmetric and alternating parts.