A standard shifted Young tableau is a filling of the shifted diagram of a partition
of
with
.
Row
contains
boxes and starts in column
, so it is indented
positions. The boxes contain each of 1, 2, ...,
exactly once, with entries increasing from left to right along
rows and from top to bottom down columns (Sagan 1987, pp. 63-64).
For example, the unique standard shifted Young tableau of shape has 1 and 2 in its first row and 3 below the 2.