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      "citation": "Mann, Elman, Wood and Chapman (2025), A graph-theoretic framework for free-parafermion solvability: oriented-indifference sufficiency is the imported baseline. The candidate supplies necessity for its stricter canonical full-spectrum formulation.",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2024.0671",
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    {
      "citation": "Fendley (2014), Free parafermions: foundational free-parafermion models and spectral structure.",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/47/7/075001",
      "doi": "10.1088/1751-8113/47/7/075001"
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      "citation": "Baricz and Singh (2018), Zeros of some special entire functions: positive-parameter hypergeometric zero-location input to the cumulant argument.",
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      "citation": "Rutter, Strash, Stumpf and Vollmer (2025), Simultaneous representation of proper and unit interval graphs: straight-enumeration uniqueness, Proposition 2.",
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      "citation": "Ruh and Elman (2026), Expanding the class of free fermions via twin-collapse methods: sector reductions and representation equivalence, not the same global-grid converse; qudit false-twin orientations differ from the same-direction fork here.",
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