Comment on ‘‘Prolate-oblate band mixing and new bands in’182

n Bindraet al. @1# have recently reported on in-beam g-ray spectroscopic studies of Hg and on the observation of dif ferent band structures in this nucleus. In particular, they d cuss the position of the well-known prolate band relative the oblate ground-state band. They identified the 2 1 member of the prolate band and developed on this basis a discus of the minimum in the prolate-oblate energy difference a function of neutron number. They point out that when the 1