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Book Information:

Author: Jr. A. W. Knapp and D. A. Vogan
Title: Cohomological induction and unitary representations
Additional book information: Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, 1995, xvii +948 pp., ISBN 0-691-03756-6

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    • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Dan Barbasch
    Affiliation: Cornell University
    Email: barbasch@math.cornell.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1999), 391-397
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-99-00782-X
    Published electronically: April 21, 1999
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1999 American Mathematical Society