title: Reply to "Comment on 'Temperature-dependent orientational ordering on a spherical surface modeled with a lattice spin model' ".
abstract: In Romano's Comment [Phys. Rev. E 91, 046501 (2015)] on Sec. II of our paper [Phys. Rev. E 90, 022502 (2014)], the author suggests that our findings concerning the nature of the ordering transition of our modified Lebwohl-Lasher model with two-dimensional planar rotators on a planar lattice are inconsistent with known mathematical results. We argue in this Reply that our findings are in fact in agreement with previous mathematical and simulation results and that the criticisms raised by Romano have no impact on the results presented in our paper.
authors.affiliation: ETH Zürich, Department of Materials, Polymer Physics, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Alan M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: ETH Zürich, Department of Materials, Polymer Physics, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wenk
authors.affiliation: ETH Zürich, Department of Materials, Polymer Physics, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.|School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AX, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ilg