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This comment corrects the dispersion relation and Landau damping formulas for Langmuir waves using Tsallis nonextensive statistics. The original formulas by Lima et al. were found to be inappropriate, and this work provides accurate analytic results.

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Area of Science:

Plasma physics
Statistical mechanics

Background:

The study addresses the dispersion relation and Landau damping of Langmuir waves.
It focuses on the application of Tsallis nonextensive statistics, a generalization of standard Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics.

Discussion:

This comment identifies inaccuracies in the previously published results by Lima et al. concerning Langmuir waves within the Tsallis formalism.
It presents a derivation of corrected analytic formulas for the dispersion relation and Landau damping.

Key Insights:

The paper provides corrected analytical expressions for the dispersion relation of Langmuir waves under nonextensive statistics.
Accurate formulas for Landau damping in the Tsallis formalism are derived, rectifying previous errors.

Outlook:

This work aims to provide a reliable theoretical foundation for studying plasma phenomena in non-equilibrium systems.
The corrected formulas are expected to be valuable for future research in plasma physics utilizing nonextensive statistical mechanics.