Quantum symmetry and braid group statistics inG-spin models

In two-dimensional lattice spin systems in which the spins take values in a finite groupG we find a non-Abelian parafermion field of the formorder x disorder that carries an action of the Hopf algebra, the double ofG. This field leads to a quantization of the Cuntz algebra and allows one to define amplifying homomorphisms on the subalgebra that create the 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. The representation of the braid group generated by the statistics operator and the corresponding statistics parameter are calculated in each sector.