Skew RSK and coincidence of Littlewood-Richardson commutors

We realise the Benkart-Sottile-Stroomer switching involution on ballot tableau pairs of partition shape as a recursive internal row insertion procedure. The key observation needed to establish such realisation is that internal row insertion operations are Knuth commutative. In fact, the Knuth class of a word encoding the sequence of internal row insertion operations preserves the $P$-tableau in the Sagan-Stanley skew RSK correspondence when the matrix word is empty. It confirms that all Littlewood-Richardson (LR) commutors, known up to date, are involutions and coincide as predicted by Pak and Vallejo.

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