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Planar Mappings of Finite Distortion

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We review recent results on planar mappings of finite distortion. This class of mappings contains all analytic functions and quasiconformal mappings.

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Koskela, P. Planar Mappings of Finite Distortion. Comput. Methods Funct. Theory 10, 663–678 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03321785

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