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B. M. Wojek
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A recent article by Sassa et al. [Phys. Rev. B 91, 045114 (2015)] reports on a soft x-ray angle-resolved photoemission study of MgB2. The analysis and/or presentation of the collected data and the corresponding calculations appear to be partially inconsistent. The aim of this comment is to provide a guide to these inconsistencies and to discuss their influence on the presented conclusions.
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