Quantum Groups, Quantum Categories and Quantum Field Theory

This book reviews recent results on low-dimensional quantumfield theories and their connection with quantum grouptheory and the theory of braided, balanced tensorcategories. It presents detailed, mathematically preciseintroductions to these subjects and then continues with newresults. Among the main results are a detailed analysis ofthe representation theory of U (sl ), for q a primitiveroot of unity, and a semi-simple quotient thereof, aclassfication of braided tensor categories generated by an