Describing Biholomorphic Self Maps of Punctured Plane

In summary, the conversation discusses the description and generalization of biholomorphic self maps of the multiply puncture plane, where the plane has n points taken away. The result for conformal self maps is also mentioned, along with the difference between these two types of maps. The concept of removable singularities is brought up, as well as the need to map the sphere to itself in order to permute the puncture points and infinity. Finally, it is suggested that the full symmetric group on n letters may be the automorphism group.
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how do we describe the biholomorphic self maps of the multiply puncture plane onto itself?
I mean C\{pi,p2,p3..pn}

Plane with n points taken away.

I wanted to generailze the result for the conformal self maps of the punctured plane, but I do feel these are quite different animals.
I thank you for any help/suggestions
 
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The singularities (and infinity) are removable. So you need to map the sphere to itself (az+b)/(cz+d) in such a way that you permute the points [itex]\{p_1,\dots,p_n,\infty\}[/itex].
 
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I thank you edgar,

I think I see it now. So I suspect we get the full symmetric group on n letters then, as the automorphism group. Thank you again
 

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