TITLE: Littlewood-Richardson rule and commutativity morphism
QUESTION [10 upvotes]: Background
Irreducible finite dimensional representations 
of the group $GL_n$ are parameterized by the highest weights,
that is by nonincreasing sequences of integers
$$
\lambda_1 \ge \lambda_2 \ge \dots \ge \lambda_n. 
$$
Let us restrict to the case when $\lambda_n \ge 0$.
Then one can encode a highest weight by a Young diagram
with $\lambda_i$ boxes in the $i$-th row.
The Littlewood-Richardson rule describes the decomposition
of a tensor product $V^\lambda \otimes V^\mu$ into a direct
sum of irreducibles. It says that the multiplicity of $V^\nu$
in the tensor product $V^\lambda \otimes V^\mu$ is equal 
to the number of so-called Littlewood-Richardson tableux
in the skew-diagram $\nu\setminus\lambda$ of weight $\mu$.
See 
Littlewood-Richardson rule for precise definitions.
Note that the rule is not symmetric with respect to $\lambda$ and $\mu$!
On the other hand, the category of representations of $GL_n$ has 
a commutativity morphism: it is a bifunctorial isomorphism
$$
c_{V,W}:V\otimes W \to W\otimes V,
\qquad
v\otimes w \mapsto w\otimes v.
$$
Question

Is there a possibility to make Littlewood-Richardson rule 
  compatible with the commutativity morphism?

To be more precise, 
is there a way to associate with every Littlewood-Richardson tableau
in a skew diagram $\nu\setminus\lambda$ of weight $\mu$ an embedding
$V^\nu \to V^\lambda\otimes V^\mu$ such that the composition
$V^\nu \to V^\lambda\otimes V^\mu \stackrel{c}\to V^\mu\otimes V^\lambda$
is the embedding associated to an appropriate Littlewood-Richardson
tableau in a skew diagram $\nu\setminus\mu$ of weight $\lambda$?
Let me emphasize that I am asking about the $GL_n$ case, although 
this question has sense for any reductive group.

REPLY [8 votes]: Let $LR(\mu/\lambda;\nu)$ be the set of Littlewood-Richardson tableaux of shape $\mu/\lambda$ and weight $\nu$. Then there is a canonical bijection between $LR(\mu/\lambda;\nu)$ and $LR(\mu/\nu;\lambda)$, presented in a paper by Pak and Vallejo ("Fundamental Symmetry map"), in a paper by Danilov and Koshevoi ("Commutor"), and in a paper by Henriques and Kamnitz.
Is this what you want ?
In the paper by Pak and Vallejo actually two "Fundamental Symmetry maps" are presented. Danilov and Koshevoi show that they coincide, and that they coincide with their "commutor", and with the map defined by Henriques and Kamnitzer.
The references:
Igor Pak and Ernesto Vallejo.
Reductions of Young tableau bijections
SIAM J. Discrete Math.  24  (2010),  no. 1, 113--145.
doi: 10.1137/070689784
(Also http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0408171)
V.I. Danilov and G.A. Koshevoi
The Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence and the bijections of commutativity and associativity.
2008 Izv. Math. 72 689
doi: 10.1070/IM2008v072n04ABEH002415
A. Henriques and J. Kamnitzer
The octahedron recurrence and $gl_n$-crystals
Adv. Math. 206:1 (2006), 211-249