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Book Information:

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
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 369-377
MSC (2000): Primary 46Lxx, 81T75, 81T45, 81T05, 81T40, 81T08, 57R56
Published electronically: March 27, 2001
Review copyright: © Copyright 2001 American Mathematical Society