The pdf is 15 pages, but really only 6 pages of it is actual content. Is it common for there to be 3 full pages of authors on a paper like this? Seems a little bizarre to my untrained eye.
> Is it common for there to be 3 full pages of authors on a paper like this?
Some subfields in physics have a specific culture around authorship. For example: In experimental particle physics, the authorship list can be similarly long. Despite the long list, there is an implicit assumption of a working particle accelerator, which is run by another large number of people who publish separately in their own journals.
