An action of the cactus group on shifted tableau crystals (Q6117249)

The shifted tableau crystal was recently introduced by \textit{M. Gillespie} et al. [Algebr. Comb. 3, No. 3, 693--725 (2020; Zbl 1443.05183)], which can be thought of as a ``crystal-like structure'' for shifted tableaux. The author takes the time to introduce the relevant background, including shifted tableaux, the notion of shifted jeu de taquin and shifted evacuation, and the shifted tableau crystal. After providing details on the \(i\)-string decomposition of shifted tableau crystal, a shifted version of the crystal reflection operators is introduced, which coincides with the restrictions of the shifted Schützenberger involution to any primed interval of two adjacent letters. It is noteworthy that these operators do not realize an action of the symmetric group on the shifted tableau crystal since the braid relations do not need to hold. The main result presents a natural internal action of the cactus group on the shifted tableau crystal, realized by the restrictions of the shifted Schützenberger involution to all primed intervals of the underlying crystal alphabet.