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+\documentclass[a4paper]{letter}
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+\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % why not type "Bézout" with unicode?
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+\signature{
+  \vspace{-6\medskipamount}
+  \smallskip
+  Jaron Kent-Dobias \& Jorge Kurchan
+}
+
+\address{
+  Laboratoire de Physique\\
+  Ecole Normale Sup\'erieure\\
+  24 rue Lhomond\\ 
+  75005 Paris
+}
+
+\begin{document}
+\begin{letter}{
+  Editorial Office\\
+  Physical Review Letters\\
+  1 Research Road\\
+  Ridge, NY 11961
+}
+
+\opening{To the editors of Physical Review,}
+
+We wish to appeal the decision on our manuscript \emph{How to count in
+hierarchical landscapes: A ‘full’ solution to mean-field complexity}, which was
+rejected without being sent to referees.
+
+The problem of characterizing the geometry of complex energy and cost
+landscapes is long-standing. Until this work, the correct calculation of the
+complexity has only been made for a small minority of systems, those with
+so-called replica symmetry. We show explicitly how such calculations can be
+made for the vast majority of cases.
+
+Landscape complexity even for the simple models we consider is relevant to a
+broad spectrum of physics disciplines. These models appear explicitly in modern
+research of machine learning, like tensor denoising, and understanding how
+complexity, dynamics, and equilibrium interplay in them provides powerful analogies
+and insights into emergent phenomena in more complicated contexts, from
+realistic machine learning models to the behavior of structural glasses.
+Already in this work, we identify the surprising result that the purported
+algorithmic threshold for optimization on mean-field cost functions lies
+\emph{far above} the geometric threshold traditionally understood as the dynamic limit.
+
+We urge you to allow this paper to go to referees and allow it to
+be judged by other scientists at the forefront of these fields.
+
+\closing{Sincerely,}
+
+\vspace{1em}
+
+\end{letter}
+
+\end{document}