Dual Affine Robinson-Schensted Correspondence

We introduce the dual affine Robinson-Schensted correspondence that gives a bijection between the extended affine symmetric group and tuples $(\bar{P},\bar{Q},\lambda,N)$, where $\bar{P}$ and $\bar{Q}$ are tabloids, $\lambda$ is a partition, and $N$ is an integer, subject to compatibility conditions. The construction generalizes Fomin's growth diagrams and Viennot's shadow lines for the classical Robinson-Schensted correspondence on the symmetric group, and is dual to the affine matrix ball construction as well as Shi's correspondence, in the sense that the $P$-tabloids are the same, and the $Q$-tabloids are related by affine evacuation. As a consequence, our construction also parametrizes Kazhdan-Lusztig cells in affine type $A$. We conjecture that the growth diagrams we construct admit a natural geometric realization in terms of relative positions of affine flags, similar to the interpretation given by Steinberg and van Leeuwen in the classical case.