Irreducible representations of the quantum analogue of SU(2)

Abstract

We give the complete set of irreducible representations of U(SU(2))_q when q is a m-th root of unity. In particular we show that their dimensions are less or equal to m. Some of them are not highest weight representations.

9 pages, plain TeX ; due to the renewed interest in quantum groups at roots of unity, we put this paper in the archive