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Counting real rational functions with all real critical values

B. Shapiro, A. Vainshtein

math.AGarXiv:math/0209062

Abstract

We study the number of real rational degree n functions (considered up to linear fractional transformations of the independent variable) with a given set of 2n-2 distinct real critical values. We present a combinatorial reformulation of this number and pose several related questions.

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