Comment on "Phase Diagram of the Random Energy Model with Higher-Order Ferromagnetic Term and Error Correcting Codes due to Sourlas"

In a recent Physics Review Letter, Dorlas and Wedagedera have studied the random energy model with an additional p-spin ferromagnetic interaction. Here we note that (i) we have solved the corresponding problem of a spherical spin system with p-spin glass interactions and r-spin ferromagnetic interactions, and (ii) a simple mapping yields the results of DW and generalizations. Reference: http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9912201