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We show that scattering diagrams for closed strings in light-cone string theory provide a single cover of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces.
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Supported in part by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
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Giddings, S.B., Wolpert, S.A. A triangulation of moduli space from light-cone string theory. Commun.Math. Phys. 109, 177–190 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01215219
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