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Book Information:

Authors: Michael Demuth and M. Krishna
Title: Determining spectra in quantum theory
Additional book information: Progress in Mathematical Physics, vol. 44, Birkhäuser, Boston, 2005, x+219 pp., ISBN 978-0-8176-4366-9, US$99.00$

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Peter D. Hislop
    Affiliation: University of Kentucky
    Email: hislop@ms.uky.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (2008), 469-477
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-08-01193-2
    Published electronically: April 21, 2008
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2008 American Mathematical Society