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Toeplitz Approach to Problems of the Uncertainty Principle

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Alexei Poltoratski, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Publication: CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics
Publication Year: 2015; Volume 121
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-2017-8 (print); 978-1-4704-2262-2 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/cbms/121
MathSciNet review: MR3309830
MSC: Primary 30B60; Secondary 30D15, 30H15, 42-02

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