Quantum symmetry and braid group statistics in \(G\)-spin models (Q1308730)

The authors write: ``In two-dimensional lattice spin systems in which the spins take values in a finite group \(G\) we find a non-Abelian ``parafermion'' field of the form order \(\times\) disorder that carries an action of the Hopf algebra \({\mathcal L} (G)\), the double of \(G\). This field leads to a ``quantization'' of the Cuntz algebra and allows one to define amplifying homomorphisms on the \({\mathcal L} (G)\)-invariant subalgebra that create the \({\mathcal L}(G)\)-charges and generalize the endomorphisms in the Doplicher-Haag-Roberts program. The so-obtained category of representations of the observable algebra is shown to be equivalent to the representation category of \({\mathcal L}(G)\). The representation of the braid group generated by the statistics operator and the corresponding statistics parameter are calculated in each sector''.