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Book Information:

Author: Ola Bratteli
Title: Derivations, dissipations and group actions on $C^ *$-algebras
Additional book information: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 1229, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, 1986, vi + 277 pp., $23.60. ISBN 0-387-17199-1.

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Palle E. T. Jorgensen
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (1987), 202-209
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1987-15565-0