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Author: Christian Weiß
Title: Twisted Teichmüller curves
Additional book information: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 2104, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2014, xvi+166 pp., ISBN 978-3-319-04074-5

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    Reviewer: Thomas A. Schmidt
    Affiliation: Oregon State University
    Email: toms@math.orst.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 53 (2016), 313-324
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/bull/1510
    Published electronically: July 6, 2015
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