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The correlation between local structure and the propensity for structuralrearrangements has been widely investigated in glass forming liquids andglasses. In this paper we use the excess two-body entropy $S_2$ andtetrahedrality $\n_{tet}$ as the per-particle local structural order parametersto explore such correlations in a three-dimensional model glass subjected tocyclic shear deformation. We first show that for both liquid configurations andthe corresponding inherent structures, local ordering increases upon loweringtemperature, signaled by a decrease in the two-body entropy and an increase intetrahedrality. When the inherent structures, or glasses, are periodicallysheared athermally, they eventually reach absorbing states for small shearamplitudes, which do not change from one cycle to the next. Large strainamplitudes result in the formation of shear bands, within which particle motionis diffusive. We show that in the steady state, there is a clear difference inthe local structural environment of particles that will be part of plasticrearrangements during the next shear cycle and that of particles that areimmobile. In particular, particles with higher $S_2$ and lower $n_{tet}$ aremore likely to go through rearrangements irrespective of the average energiesof the configurations and strain amplitude. For high shear, we find verydistinctive local order outside the mobile shear band region, where almost$30\%$ of the particles are involved in icosahedral clusters, contrastingstrongly with the fraction of $<5\%$ found inside the shear band.

Correlation between plastic rearrangements and local structure in a cyclically driven glass