Invariants of knots and 3-manifolds from quantum groupoids (Q1868887)

A general method of constructing invariants of 3-manifolds from modular Hopf algebras was introduced by \textit{N. Reshetikhin} and \textit{V. G. Turaev} [Invent. Math. 103, No. 3, 547-597 (1991; Zbl 0725.57007)]. In the paper under review, the authors study the representation categories of quantum groupoids and give in this way a new construction of modular categories. This extends the construction of modular categories from modular Hopf algebras and in particular from quantum groups at roots of unity.