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On Wolfgang Lusky’s paper “The Gurarij spaces are unique”

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This note surveys Wolfgang Lusky’s proof of uniqueness of the Gurariy spaces and mentions further developments.

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Werner, D. On Wolfgang Lusky’s paper “The Gurarij spaces are unique”. Arch. Math. 121, 615–624 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-023-01924-4

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