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Author: Ciprian Foias and Arthur E. Frazho
Title: The commutant lifting approach to interpolation problems
Additional book information: Birkh\"auser, Basel, 1990, 6331 pp., US$129{.}00. ISBN 3-7643-2461-9.

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