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It is shown that the four-parameter family of elliptic functions
introduced by Darboux and rediscovered a hundred years later by Treibich and Verdier, generates the most general linear subspace of meromorphic functions containing infinitely many finite-gap potentials.
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Veselov, A.P. On Darboux–Treibich–Verdier Potentials. Lett Math Phys 96, 209–216 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11005-010-0420-6
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