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Authors: J.-P. Ortega and T. S. Ratiu
Title: Momentum maps and Hamiltonian reduction
Additional book information: Progress in Math., vol. 222, Birkhäuser Boston, Inc., Boston, MA, 2004, xxxiv + 497 pp., ISBN 0-8176-4307-9, $69.95$

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    • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Jȩdrzej Śniatycki
    Affiliation: University of Calgary
    Email: sniat@math.ucalgary.ca
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 215-223
    Published electronically: November 29, 2004
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2004 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.