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Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 49, No. 5, pp. 54–61, May, 1991.
Thus, the verification of the promised properties of XS is finished.
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Ivanov, N.V. Complexes of curves and Teichmüller spaces. Mathematical Notes of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 49, 479–484 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01142643
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