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MathSciNet review: 3738538
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Book Information:

Authors: Alberto Cialdea and Vladimir Maz’ya
Title: Semi-bounded differential operators, contractive semigroups, and beyond
Additional book information: Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, Vol. 243, Birkh\"auser/Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2014, xiv+252 pp., ISBN 978-3-319-04557-3

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Jerome A. Goldstein
    Affiliation: University of Memphis
    Email: jgoldste@memphis.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 113-122
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/bull/1575
    Published electronically: March 23, 2017
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2017 American Mathematical Society