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Author(s): 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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Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
P. Beazley Cohen and F. Hirzebruch

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 32 (1995), 88-105.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1995-00564-1
PII: S 0273-0979(1995)00564-1




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