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To Lars V. Ahlfors, on his 70th birthday
This work has been partially supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number NSF MCS76-08478.
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Bers, L. An extremal problem for quasiconformal mappings and a theorem by Thurston. Acta Math. 141, 73–98 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02545743
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