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Authors: D. Evans and Y. Kawahigashi
Title: Quantum symmetries on operator algebras
Additional book information: Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1998, xv + 829 pp., ISBN 0-19-851175-2, $200.00$

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Vaughan F. R. Jones
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Email: vfr@math.berkeley.edu

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