What does the comma mean in the mathematical expression?

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While reading the Wikipedia page on Fourier-transform spectroscopy, in the section "Extracting the spectrum", I found the following

$$ I(p) = \bigg(p, \int_0^\infty I(p, v) \, {\rm d} v\bigg) = \bigg(p,  \int_0^\infty I(v)(1+\cos(2 \pi v p) \, {\rm d} v \bigg)$$

where

  • $I(p)$ is the total intensity at the detector

  • $v$ is the wave number

  • $I(v)$ is the spectrum to be determined

  • $p$ the path length difference

Could someone please explain to me what the comma after the $p$ here means?

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Summing up the comments: The $p$:s and commas before the integral signs stem from an unexplained Wikipedia edit from 2012. They appear to have no meaning, and have now been removed from the Wikipedia article.