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On the Nielsen-Thurston-Bers type of some self-maps of Riemann surfaces

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Research partially supported by NSF Grant MCS 7801248.

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Kra, I. On the Nielsen-Thurston-Bers type of some self-maps of Riemann surfaces. Acta Math 146, 231–270 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02392465

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