Reply to "Rescuing the MaxEnt treatment for q-generalized entropies" by A. Plastino and M.C. Rocca

Plastino and Rocca [Physica A 491, 1023 (2018)] recently criticized our work [Phys. Lett. A 381, 207 (2017)] on the ground that one should use functional calculus instead of the ordinary calculus adopted by us in the entropy maximization procedure. We simply point out that our work requires right from the beginning $\partial S_q / \partial U = \beta$, whereas the formalism of Plastino and Rocca yields $\partial S_q/\partial U = q \beta Z^{1-q} \neq \beta$. Therefore, the work of Plastino and Rocca is irrelevant for our work.