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0 0 On the compatibility of causality and symmetry 0 (Comments on ”Analysis of causality in time-dependent density functional 2 n theory”) u J 3 M. Ya. Amusiaa,b and V. R. Shaginyanc, 1 2 ] aThe Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel; n bA.F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, St.Petersburg 194021, Russia; n - c Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina 188350, Russia s i d . t a Abstract m- It is argued that there exists the only one inverse of the linear response function d χ, i.e. χ−1, which depends symmetrically of its spatial-times variables [1]. Some brief n comments on this consideration are presented. We show instead, that it is possible to o c construct the causal inverse also. At the same time we confirm the main statement of [ [1] that in fact there is no contradiction between the symmetry and causality. 1 v PACS number(s): 31.15.Ew; 31.50.+w 6 5 3 In a recent paper M. K. Harbola and A. Banerjee [1] considered a paradox, which is 6 connected to the symmetry properties of the linear response function χ and the causality 0 0 (see, e.g. [2, 3, 4]). This paradox comes from an observation, that the inverse of the linear −1 ′ ′ 0 response function of a many-body system χ, i.e. χ (r, t; r , t ) being the second functional / t derivative, a 2 −1 ′ ′ δvext (r, t