Solution

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The free-boson worldsheet theory factorizes into independent holomorphic and antiholomorphic sectors. The factors contract only in the holomorphic sector and produce one tensor , while the factors independently produce . Their product is the closed-string version of left-right factorization, often summarized at tree level as closed-string kinematics being a square of open-string kinematics.

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