Help understand a dual of an optimization problem

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The main problem is that I don't understand why (8) is the dual of (6).

Dual: I think the minimization in the dual is over $p_{ij}$ and $z_i$.

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Primal:

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Supplement. The source of this problem is this paper. The original model is

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and I understand the following proposition.

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The problem: I have trouble understanding the dual in the proof. I tried computing the dual function without success.

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