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Foundations of Free Noncommutative Function Theory

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Dmitry S. Kaliuzhnyi-Verbovetskyi, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA and Victor Vinnikov, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Publication: Mathematical Surveys and Monographs
Publication Year: 2014; Volume 199
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-1697-3 (print); 978-1-4704-2001-7 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/surv/199
MathSciNet review: MR3244229
MSC: Primary 46L52; Secondary 16S10, 47A60, 81Q12, 81R05, 81R10, 81R60, 81T05

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