The valence of harmonic polynomials

The valence of harmonic polynomials
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 126 (1998), 2077-2081 Request permission

The paper gives an upper bound for the valence of harmonic polynomials. An example is given to show that this bound is sharp.

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