Drinfeld Realization for Quantum Affine Orthosymplectic Superalgebras

A well-defined braid groupoid action is an essential tool for constructing the new Drinfeld realization of a quantum affine superalgebra.

For quantum affine orthosymplectic superalgebras (types B, C, and D), this action was not fully defined, as the braid operators $T_i$ were known only up to normalization factors.

In this paper, we solve this problem by providing the explicit formulas for these operators for any choice of parity.

This yields a well-defined braid group action on the direct sum of these superalgebras.

As a consequence, we use this action to formally introduce the new Drinfeld realization $U_q^D(\widehat{\mathfrak{g}}_s)$ for these types and prove that the corresponding Drinfeld-Jimbo quantum group $U_q(\widehat{\mathfrak{g}}_s)$ is its surjective homomorphic image.

We conjecture that this map is an isomorphism.