2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/75899This is a survey of the Deligne-Mostow theory of Lauricella functions, or what almost amounts to the same thing, of the period map for cyclic coverings of the Riemann sphere.28 pages, based on lectures given at the CIMPA summer school, Istanbul (2005)Complex VariablesAlgebraic Geometry33C65; 22E40; 32G20text