Wednesday, October 3, 2012

1210.0426 (Carl M. Bender et al.)

Comment on "Numerical estimates of the spectrum for anharmonic PT
symmetric potentials" by Bowen et al
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Carl M. Bender, Stefan Boettcher
The paper by Bowen, Mancini, Fessatidis, and Murawski (2012 Phys. Scr. {\bf 85}, 065005) demonstrates in a dramatic fashion the serious difficulties that can arise when one rushes to perform numerical studies before understanding the physics and mathematics of the problem at hand and without understanding the limitations of the numerical methods used. Based on their flawed numerical work, the authors conclude that the work of Bender and Boettcher is wrong even though it has been verified at a completely rigorous level. Unfortunately, the numerical procedures performed and described in the paper by Bowen et al are incorrectly applied and wrongly interpreted.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0426

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