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A note on rational maps with three branching points on the Riemann sphere

Zhiqiang Wei, Yingyi Wu and Bin Xu

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 25 (2025) 5607–5617

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2025.25.5607

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