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Author(s): D. S. Passman
Title: Infinite crossed products
Additional book information: Academic Press, New York, 460 pp., $84.50. ISBN 0-12-546390-1

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Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 24 (1991), 391-402.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1991-16044-1
PII: S 0273-0979(1991)16044-1

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