About the cover: meromorphic functions with doubly periodic phase (Q1745947)

In this expository paper some remarks concerning meromorphic functions with doubly periodic phase (argument) are developed. The authors discuss a canonical representation of these functions in relationship with the Weierstrass \(\sigma\)-function associated with \({\mathbb Q}\). In particular, it is pointed out that the zeros and poles of a meromorphic function with doubly periodic phase in a fundamental domain can be prescribed arbitrarily, with the only restriction that their counting multiplicities must coincide.