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Book Information:

Author: C. Moeglin and J.-L. Waldspurger
Title: Spectral decomposition and Eisenstein series
Additional book information: Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne, 1995, xxvii+ 335 pp., ISBN 0-521-41893-3, $80.00$

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Bill Casselman
    Affiliation: University of British Columbia
    Email: cass@math.ubc.ca
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 35 (1998), 243-247
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-98-00752-6
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1998 American Mathematical Society