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A triangulation of moduli space from light-cone string theory

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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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  1. Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, 08544, Princeton, NJ, USA

    Steven B. Giddings

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, 20742, College Park, MD, USA

    Scott A. Wolpert

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Communicated by A. Jaffe

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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