has at worst algebraic poles and ordinary algebraic branchings over the critical values.

Note that, away from the critical values, we have

since the f_i are by definition the distinct zeros of p. Analytic continuation of the local branches around loops avoiding the critical values permutes the branches; these permutations form the monodromy group of the algebraic function. (The monodromy action on the universal covering space

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