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It turns out that all compact riemann surfaces can be described as compacti. The purpose of these notes is to present some basic facts of this theory to make this book more self contained. Actually, it can be shown that every compact riemann surface can be embedded into complex projective 3space. Later on we consider basically compact riemann surfaces and call c shortly the riemann surface of the curve c.
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