Comment on "extremal-point densities of interface fluctuations in a quenched random medium".
Lam and Tan [Phys. Rev. E 62, 6246 (2000)] recently studied the extremal-point densities of interface fluctuations in a quenched random medium. In this Comment we show that their results for systems on a lattice contain algebraic errors leading to invalid conclusions. Further, while most of their calculations for the continuum case are correct, they misinterpret the result to come to an agreement with the (erroneous) lattice calculations. We derive the correct expressions for the lattice, which agree with the correct interpretation of the continuum case.
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Theoretical Division and Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
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