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An exact treatment of the invariant imbedding equations for the magnit
ude and the phase of the amplitude reflection coefficient of short one
-dimensional disordered conductors yields an infinite mean conductance
, in agreement with earlier work assuming a uniform distribution of ph
ases. This contradicts the result of a heuristic but internally incons
istent analysis of the imbedding equations by Pradhan and Kumar [Phys.
Rev. B 48, 5661 (1993)].