Chiral forms and three-flavor operators for staggered baryons

In staggered QCD, many staggered baryons correspond to each physical state. Taste violations lift the continuum degeneracies of the baryons and introduce nonzero off-diagonal elements in the mass matrix. While presenting no problem of principle, these splittings and mixings complicate analyses of simulation results. However, in special cases operators with good SU(3) quantum numbers can be used to circumvent the splittings and mixings. I review what has been learned from staggered chiral perturbation theory, outline a progr am of attack for the amenable cases, and summarize the present status of work on the staggered chiral forms and operators with good SU(3) × GTS quantum numbers.