Gelfand–Tsetlin Pattern and Strict Partitions

We give a representation-theoretical interpretation of the Gelfand–Tsetlin pattern for strict partitions. Using the Howe duality involving a pair of the queer Lie superalgebras and an analogue of the Littlewood–Richardson rule for Schur Q-functions, we show that such patterns give the branching rule for the irreducible tensor representations of the queer Lie superalgebra.