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Author: Pavel Etingof and Frédéric Latour
Title: The dynamical Yang–Baxter equation, representation theory, and quantum integrable systems
Additional book information Oxford Lecture Series in Mathematics and Its Applications, Oxford University Press, Oxford, Vol. 29, 2005, xii+138 pp., US $115.00, ISBN 978-0-19-853068-8.

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Review Information

Reviewer: Giovanni Felder
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Email: felder@math.ethz.ch
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 181-186
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2012-01367-8
PII: S 0273-0979(2012)01367-8
Posted: January 18, 2012
Additional Notes: The reviewer was supported in part by the Swiss National Science Foundation
Review copyright: © Copyright 2012 American Mathematical Society
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