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Author(s): N. Christopher Phillips
Title: Equivariant $K$-theory and freeness of group actions on $C^*$-algebras
Additional book information: Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 1274, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, viii + 371 pp., $32.90. ISBN 3-540-18277-2


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Reviewer(s):
Joachim Cuntz

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 20 (1989), 101-103.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1989-15715-7
PII: S 0273-0979(1989)15715-7


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