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Author(s): T. Ya. Azizov and I. S. Iokhvidov
Title: Linear operators in spaces with an indefinite metric
Additional book information: John Wiley & Sons, 1989, 300 pp., $82.95. ISBN 0-471-92129-7

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Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 25 (1991), 111-123.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1991-16039-8
PII: S 0273-0979(1991)16039-8

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