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Authors: Mark Green, Phillip A. Griffiths and Matt Kerr
Title: Mumford–Tate groups and domains: their geometry and arithmetic
Additional book information: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2012, viii+289 pp., ISBN 978-0-691-154251

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Review Information:

Reviewer: Gregory Pearlstein
Affiliation: Texas A&M University
Email: gpearl@math.tamu.edu