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Iteration of Quasiregular Mappings

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We survey some results on the iteration of quasiregular mappings. In particular we discuss some recent results on the dynamics of quasiregular maps which are not uniformly quasiregular.

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Bergweiler, W. Iteration of Quasiregular Mappings. Comput. Methods Funct. Theory 10, 455–481 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03321776

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