Equivariant Cohomology, Schubert Calculus, and Edge Labeled Tableaux

This chapter concerns the concept of edge labeled Young tableaux, introduced by H. Thomas and the third author. It is used to model equivariant Schubert calculus of Grassmannians. We survey results, problems, conjectures, together with their influences from combinatorics, algebraic and symplectic geometry, linear algebra, and computational complexity. We report on a new shifted analogue of edge labeled tableaux. Conjecturally, this gives a Littlewood–Richardson rule for the structure constants of the Anderson–Fulton ring, which is related to the equivariant cohomology of isotropic Grassmannians.