A closed string has a cylindrical worldsheet without boundary. Periodicity permits independent left- and right-moving oscillator sectors and, in a compact target direction, winding modes.
A free closed-string embedding coordinate is the sum of center-of-mass zero modes and independent periodic left- and right-moving oscillator expansions.

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