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diff --git a/referee_respose_2.txt b/referee_respose_2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4ddc8e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/referee_respose_2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +The latest reviews had nothing to say about the scientific content of our +paper, only about its relevance to Physical Review Letters. For resubmission to +Physical Review Research, we have therefore changed nothing except to expand on +our reasoning regarding the relevance of this work to the broader physics +community, and indeed across disciplines. The end of the fourth paragraph now +reads: + +> [...] In order to do this correctly, features of the action's landscape in +> complex space---such as the relative position of saddles and the existence of +> Stokes lines joining them---must be understood. This is typically done for +> simple actions with few saddles, or for a target phenomenology with +> symmetries that restrict the set of saddles to few candidates. Given the +> recent proliferation of `glassiness' in condensed matter and high energy +> physics, it is inevitable that someone will want to apply these methods to a +> system with a complex landscape, and will find they cannot use approaches +> that rely on such assumptions. Their landscape may not be random: here we +> follow the standard strategy of computer science by understanding the generic +> features of random instances of a simple case, expecting that this sheds +> light on practical, nonrandom problems. While in this paper we do not yet +> address analytic continuation of integrals, understanding the distribution +> and spectra of critical points is an essential first step. |