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Author(s): D. Evans and Y. Kawahigashi
Title: Quantum symmetries on operator algebras
Additional book information: Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1998, xv + 829, $200.00, 0-19-851175-2

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Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
Vaughan F. R. Jones
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Email: vfr@math.berkeley.edu

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 369-377.

MSC (2000): Primary 46Lxx, 81T75, 81T45, 81T05, 81T40, 81T08, 57R56
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-01-00906-5
PII: S 0273-0979(01)00906-5
Posted: March 27, 2001
Copyright of article: Copyright 2001, American Mathematical Society

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