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This is a survey of the Deligne-Mostow theory of Lauricella functions, or what almost amounts to the same, of the period map for cyclic coverings of the Riemann sphere.
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Looijenga, E. (2007). Uniformization by Lauricella Functions — An Overview of the Theory of Deligne-Mostow. In: Holzapfel, RP., Uludağ, A.M., Yoshida, M. (eds) Arithmetic and Geometry Around Hypergeometric Functions. Progress in Mathematics, vol 260. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8284-1_8
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