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Author: János Kollár
Title: Shafarevich maps and automorphic forms
Additional book information: Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, 1995, 199 pp., ISBN 0-691-04381-7, $37.50$

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    • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Donu Arapura
    Affiliation: Purdue University
    Email: arapura@math.purdue.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 283-286
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-96-00650-7
    Review copyright: © Copyright 1996 American Mathematical Society