Generalized Kac-Moody algebras and some related topics
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- Urmie Ray
- Affiliation: Université de Reims, France
- Email: ray@ihes.fr
- Received by editor(s): February 8, 2000
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: July 20, 2000, and September 19, 2000
- Published electronically: October 18, 2000
- © Copyright 2000 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 1-42
- MSC (2000): Primary 17B65, 17B67
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-00-00891-0
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Dedicated: To the memory of my father