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Nico Santowsky, Gernot Eichmann, Christian S. Fischer +2

In a recent comment [1] Blankleider and Kvinikhidze claim that our work [2] is based on a set of inconsistent Bethe-Salpeter equations for the coupling of four-quark to two-quark s…