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Authors: 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:

    Reviewer: Leiba Rodman
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 25 (1991), 111-123
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1991-16039-8