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I respond to the Bernard et al. comment on my letter “Chiral anomalies and rooted staggered fermions.” In their comment on my letter “Chiral anomalies and rooted staggered fermions,” [1] Bernard, Golterman, Shamir, and Sharpe [2] do not address the main point that the chiral symmetry group for the rooted theory has a higher rank than the target theory. This immediately calls into question wheth...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Affairs
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0278-2715,1544-5208
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2013.0278