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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1566909
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Book Information:

Authors: Christian Berg and Gunnar Forst
Title: Potential theory on locally compact abelian groups
Additional book information: Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, Band 87, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1975, vi + 197 pp., $25.40.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Jacques Deny
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 82 (1976), 840-842
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1976-14177-8