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We observe that word reading is a crystal morphism. This leads us to prove that for SLn (ℂ) the map from all galleries to Miković–Vilonen cycles is a surjective morphism of crystals. We also compute the fibers of this map in terms of the Littelmann path model.
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TORRES, J. WORD READING IS A CRYSTAL MORPHISM. Transformation Groups 21, 577–591 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00031-016-9364-y
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