On the number of zeros of certain rational harmonic functions

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1077-1085

  Khavinson, Dmitry ^a   Neumann, Genevra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Argument principle; Fixed points; Gravitational lenses; Rational harmonic mappings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645791445     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-05-08058-5     Document Type: Article

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