Affinization of shifted quantum affine $\mathfrak{gl}_2$

Abstract

We give a realization $\mathcal{A}_0$ of quantum toroidal algebra associated to $\mathfrak{gl}_2$ which can be viewed as an affinization of the Drinfeld new realization of quantum affine $\mathfrak{gl}_2$. We use this realization to define an affinization $\mathcal{A}_N$, $N\in{\mathbb Z}$, of shifted quantum affine $\mathfrak{gl}_2$. We construct a large family of representations of dominantly shifted algebra $\mathcal A_N$, $N>0$. The examples of representations with even positive $N$ appear in the study of extensions of deformed $W$-algebras of type $\mathfrak{gl}(N+2|1)$.