Crystal bases for the quantum queer superalgebra and semistandard decomposition tableaux

In this paper, we give an explicit combinatorial realization of the crystal B(\lambda) for an irreducible highest weight U_q(q(n))-module V(\lambda) in terms of semistandard decomposition tableaux. We present an insertion scheme for semistandard decomposition tableaux and give algorithms of decomposing the tensor product of q(n)-crystals. Consequently, we obtain explicit combinatorial descriptions of the shifted Littlewood-Richardson coefficients.