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The main purpose of this paper is to study the concept of normal function in the context of harmonic mappings from the unit disk \(\mathbb {D}\) to the complex plane. In particular, we obtain necessary conditions for a function f to be normal.

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Correspondence to Rodrigo Hernández.

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Communicated by A. Constantin.

The authors were partially supported by Fondecyt Grant #1150284. The first author was partially supported by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Hermes Code 34044. The third author wishes to thank the Universidad del Cauca for supporting this work through research project VRI ID 4340.

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Arbeláez, H., Hernández, R. & Sierra, W. Normal harmonic mappings. Monatsh Math 190, 425–439 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00605-018-1235-2

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