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We introduce a Littlewood-Richardson rule based on an algorithmic deformation of skew Young diagrams and present a bijection with the classical rule. The result is a direct combinatorial interpretation and proof of the geometric rule presented by Coskun (2000). We also present a corollary regarding the Specht modules of the intermediate diagrams.
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Liu, R.I. An algorithmic Littlewood-Richardson rule. J Algebr Comb 31, 253–266 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10801-009-0184-1
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