Axioms for shifted tableau crystals (Q1740358)

\textit{M. Gillespie} et al. [``A crystal-like structure on shifted tableaux'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1706.09969}] introduced coplactic operators on shifted semistandard tableaux, which form a crystal-like structure that recovers the combinatorics of type B Schubert calculus. In the paper under review, the authors provide local axioms that uniquely characterize this crystal-like structure on shifted tableaux. This characterization resembles that developed by \textit{J. R. Stembridge} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 355, No. 12, 4807--4823 (2003; Zbl 1047.17007)] for type A tableau crystals, and provides a tool for the study of Schur Q-positive expansions in symmetric function theory.