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Imprimitivity for Representations of Locally Compact Groups I

1949; National Academy of Sciences; Volume: 35; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1073/pnas.35.9.537

1091-6490

George W. Mackey,

Advanced Algebra and Geometry

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