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Author: Pierre Deligne and G. Daniel Mostow
Title: Commensurabilities among lattices in $\mathrm{PU}(1,n)$
Additional book information: Annals of Mathematics Studies, no. 132, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1993, 183 pp., US$19.95. ISBN 0-691-00096-4.

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    • Review Information:

    Reviewer: P. Beazley Cohen and F. Hirzebruch
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 32 (1995), 88-105
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1995-00564-1