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MathSciNet review: 2594632
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Book Information:

Author: James E. Humphreys
Title: Representations of semisimple Lie algebras in the BGG category $\mathcal O$
Additional book information: Graduate Studies in Mathematics, vol. 94, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2008, xvi+289 pp., ISBN 978-0-8218-4678-0

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Wolfgang Soergel
    Affiliation: Mathematisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
    Email: wolfgang.soergel@math.uni-freiburg.de
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (2010), 367-371
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-09-01266-X
    Published electronically: July 13, 2009
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2009 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.