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Moduli spaces and braid monodromy types of bidouble covers of the quadric

Fabrizio Catanese, Michael Lönne and Bronislaw Wajnryb

Geometry & Topology 15 (2011) 351–396

DOI: 10.2140/gt.2011.15.351

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