Chapter 8 Local operator theory, random matrices and Banach spaces

Handbook of the Geometry of Banach Spaces

Volumn 1, Issue C, 2001, Pages 317-366

  Davidson, Kenneth R ^a   Szarek, Stanislaw J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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