Physics Legend Witten Credits Claude Opus 5.5 in New Paper

Edward Witten's new arXiv paper on lattice definitions of gauge theories with chiral fermions explicitly credits Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 for detailed assistance, with the text noting the AI proposed a key variant, marking a notable case of a top physicist acknowledging AI's substantive role in research.

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