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Book Information
Author(s):
Dusa McDuff and Dietmar Salamon
Title:
 -holomorphic curves and symplectic topology
Additional book information:
Colloquium Publications, vol. 52,
Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI,
2004,
xii+669,
US$99.00,
0-8218-3485-1
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Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
Yakov
Eliashberg
Affiliation:
Stanford University
Email:
eliash@math.stanford.edu
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
44
(2007),
309-315.
MSC
(2000):
Primary 53D05, 53D45, 53D35, 57R17, 37J05, 32Q65;
Secondary 53D12, 53D40, 58J05, 14N35
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-06-01132-3
PII:
S 0273-0979(06)01132-3
Posted:
December 1, 2006
Copyright of article:
Copyright
2006,
American Mathematical Society
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