From e6f638a736629a97f210b856fcded51a7ef09813 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jaron Kent-Dobias <jaron@kent-dobias.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:43:58 -0400
Subject: clarification to discussion of former work on SOS algorithms

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 monte-carlo.tex | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'monte-carlo.tex')

diff --git a/monte-carlo.tex b/monte-carlo.tex
index 57f3859..4b9ba61 100644
--- a/monte-carlo.tex
+++ b/monte-carlo.tex
@@ -434,8 +434,9 @@ $s_i\cdot j=-i-j$. The elements of order two are reflections $s_i$, whose
 action on $\Z$ is transitive. The coupling can be any function of the absolute
 difference $|i-j|$.  Because random choice of reflection will almost always
 result in energy changes so large that the whole system is flipped, it is
-better to select random reflections about integers close to the average state
+better to select random reflections about integers or half-integers close to the average state
 of the system.  A variant of the algorithm has been applied without a field
+whose success relies both on this and on using nonzero $q$
 \cite{evertz_stochastic_1991}.
 
 \section{Performance}
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