title: Comment on "test of nonequilibrium thermodynamics in glassy systems: the soft-sphere case".
abstract: In this Comment, I show that the free energy expression for a glass proposed by La Nave [Phys. Rev. E 68, 032103 (2003)] cannot be correct since it violates the second law of thermodynamics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
authors.forename: Prabhat K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Gupta