A testable theory for high-Tc superconductivity in cuprates

Referee A Report Av1 on: 26-IX 2022
A testable theory for High-Tc Superconductivity in Cuprates
by E. C. Marino,
The referee has a good general impression about the paper, formulation of the problem and a proposal for author's theory for the superconductivity (it does not mean that the referee is fully convinced on its real validity). It is very likely that the paper should get the accepted opinion.
1) The paper should be returned to the author with suggestion to read carefully the text and repair some obvious misprints. The paper should follow the SCES template.
2) On p. 5, right column, line 2 b, suddenly appears ref. 30. Likely it is related to a misprint
on p. 1, r c, ln 9b, with ?? [] lack of citation numbers. There are only Refs 13 and 21 on p. 2.
3) On p. 3 r c, ln 6b appears the right parenthesis with the left one
4) On p. 9, r c, under fig. appears an unknown thing (??)
5) Please make some cosmetics of references:
a) better Phys. Rev.B 58, not Phys. Rev B58
b) always comma after authors,
c) Ref 14 - not full given names .
d) Ref. 45 - the same style, i.e. not et al.
e) the required style of the section - not 1) or not 2.1) only point or nothing
f) !!!!!!!! required Contents
6) Author is asked to be more specific in a short presentation of their solution on p. 1:
a) e.g. on p. 1 r c, ln 9b "In our case, however, differently from the RVB state the resonating dimers are themselves Cooper pairs formed by two holes with opposite spins and belonging to different nearest neighbor sub-lattices."
b) "In our case, however, differently from the RVB state the resonating dimers [of what] are themselves Cooper pairs formed by two holes [WHERE, of what] with opposite spins and belonging to different nearest neighbour sub-lattices [of what]."
c) Be more specific also in Conclusion:
"The pairing mechanism in our theory derives from the ferromagnetic fluctuations of the Kondo-like interaction between doped [where, of what] holes and localized Cu ions, the Pseudogap stems from the Coulomb repulsion among [where, of what] holes or, equivalently, the Coulomb attraction between electrons [which] and holes [where], while the main resistivity mechanism consists of hole-exciton scattering. The PG T∗(x) line is a 2nd.[remove] order transition, whose order parameter is the ground-state expectation value of the exciton creation operator."

d) please, extend - Abstract