Dear Dr Parrott

TITLE:    Comment on "Sufficient conditions for uniqueness of the Weak
Value"
AUTHORS:   Dr S Parrott

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Article under review for Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Comment on "Sufficient conditions for uniqueness of the Weak Value" - Dr S
Parrott
ID: A/417115/COM
BOARD MEMBER'S REPORT
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Concerning the long comment (manuscript code 417459): the comment does not
touch on the claim (which Dr Parrott seems now to accept), but on a
detailed
step of the proof which he finds not general enough (although it is correct
at
least in many cases). The authors admit that the proof, as written, was
using
some implicit results that were not explicitly worked out. They propose to
add
a Lemma to their paper, in the form of an erratum, which will make
everything
explicit. For out journal, this course is the most satisfactory. In this
erratum, Drs Dressel and Jordan will have to acknowledge that this
correction
was prompted by Dr Parrott's criticism by quoting the arXiv version
http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5604. If other scientists are keen in following
the
controversy, they can pick up from there.

Concerning the short comment (manuscript code 417115), I agree with the
authors
that this is not a comment but rather a proposed improvement. Dr Parrott
should
submit it as a regular article somewhere. As it stands, such a contribution
is
too minor to be considered by J Phys A, especially in view of our new
stricter
criteria for consideration. However, we are ready to consider it if the
submitted paper is co-authored all the three scientists (Parrott, Dressel,
Jordan), thus proving that the feud is over.
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