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On the fix-points of composite meromorphic functions and generalizations

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The research of the first author was partially supported by a U.P.G.C. grant, Hong Kong, and the second author by a research grant from Tsing Hua University, China.

An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02843164.

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Yang, CC., Zheng, JH. On the fix-points of composite meromorphic functions and generalizations. J. Anal. Math. 68, 59–93 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02790204

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