combinatorial mathematics Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many ap ...

, a picture is a bijection between skew diagrams satisfying certain properties, introduced by in a generalization of the

Robinson–Schensted correspondence In mathematics, the Robinson–Schensted correspondence is a bijective correspondence between permutations and pairs of standard Young tableaux of the same shape. It has various descriptions, all of which are of algorithmic nature, it has many rema ...

and the

Littlewood–Richardson rule In mathematics, the Littlewood–Richardson rule is a combinatorial description of the coefficients that arise when decomposing a product of two Schur functions as a linear combination of other Schur functions. These coefficients are natural numbe ...

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* *{{Citation , authorlink=Andrei Zelevinsky , last1=Zelevinsky , first1=A. V. , title=A generalization of the Littlewood-Richardson rule and the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence , doi=10.1016/0021-8693(81)90128-9 , mr=613858 , year=1981 , journal=Journal of Algebra , issn=0021-8693 , volume=69 , issue=1 , pages=82–94, doi-access=free Algebraic combinatorics Combinatorial algorithms