Solution

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The Riemann sphere has three complex Conformal Killing vector fields, forming the Möbius group . Gauge fixing this residual conformal symmetry permits three insertion points to be fixed arbitrarily. Each unintegrated string vertex operator contains , and the three insertions exactly saturate the three holomorphic and three antiholomorphic ghost zero modes. Since every full vertex has weight , the correlator is Möbius invariant and independent of the chosen three positions.

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