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Author(s): V. S. Varadarajan
Title: Harmonic analysis on real reductive groups
Additional book information: Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 576, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1977, 521 pp., $17.20


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Reviewer(s):
Rebecca A. Herb

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 (1979), 398-401.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14614-7
PII: S 0273-0979(1979)14614-7


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