Affine flag varieties and quantum symmetric pairs. II: Multiplication formula (Q2001395)

\textit{A. A. Beilinson} et al. [Duke Math. J. 61, No. 2, 655--677 (1990; Zbl 0713.17012)] that partial flag varieties of type \(A\) are a geometric setting for quantum \(\mathfrak{gl}_n\). ``For other classical partial flag varieties, it is only known recently that they are governed by coideal subalgebras of quantum \(\mathfrak{gl}_n\)''. In [\textit{Z. Fan} et al., Affine flag varieties and quantum symmetric pairs.Mem. Am. Math. Soc. 1285, 123 p. (2020; Zbl 1452.17001)] the authors provided a description of the convolution algebra of affine partial flag varieties of type \(C\). In this paper it is proved that it is controlled by certain coideal subalgebra of quantum affine \(\mathfrak{gl}_n\) and gives a canonical bases for the latter algebras parametrized by certain tridiagonal matrices. There is yet another natural set of multiplicative generators consisting of the tridiagonal standard basis elements, in the present paper a multiplication formula for this base is obtained.