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Authors: N. Ja. Vilenkin and A. U. Klimyk
Title: Representation of Lie groups and special functions
Additional book information: Kluwer Acad. Publ., Dordrecht, $804.50 (set). Vol. 1: Simplest Lie groups, special functions and integral transforms, vol. 72, 1991, xxiv + 608 pp., $408.00, ISBN 0-7923-1466-2; Vol. 2: Class I representations, special functions, and integral transforms, vol. 74, 1992, xviii + 607 pp., $397.00, ISBN 0-7923-1492-1; Vol. 3: Classical and quantum groups and special functions, vol. 75, 1992, xx + 634 pp., $397.00, ISBN 0-7923-1493-X,

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