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A few days ago, Peng Yu sent me this email

Dear Prof. Robert,

The citation Edwards and Sokal (1988) appears on page 326 of your book MCSM2. However, I don’t find in in the Reference section (it would have appear on page 601 if it is in the reference section).

I don’t find this error in the errata. Could you please fix it in the errata? Thank you!

This is indeed a missing reference in the book! I just checked and Edwards and Sokal (1988) is inded not given via a bibtex reference. The correct reference is

Robert G. Edwards and Alan D. Sokal Generalization of the Fortuin-Kasteleyn-Swendsen-Wang representation and Monte Carlo algorithm. Phys. Rev. D 38, 2009–2012 (1988)

or in BibTeX format

@Article{PhysRevD.38.2009,
title = {Generalization of the Fortuin-Kasteleyn-Swendsen-Wang representation
and Monte Carlo algorithm},
author = {Edwards, Robert G. and Sokal, Alan D.},
journal = {Phys. Rev. D},
volume = {38},
number = {6},
pages = {2009--2012},
numpages = {3},
year = {1988},
month = {Sep},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.38.2009},
publisher = {American Physical Society}
}


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