<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">APM</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Advances in Pure Mathematics</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2160-0368</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/apm.2014.47043</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">APM-48244</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>PHYSICS &amp; MATHEMATICS</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Reply to Comment on “On Humbert Matrix Polynomials of Two Variables”</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ghazi</surname><given-names>S. Khammash</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ayman</surname><given-names>Shehata</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Department of Mathematics, Al-Aqsa University, Gaza Strip, Palestine</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt</addr-line></aff><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>07</day><month>07</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><volume>04</volume><issue>07</issue><fpage>324</fpage><lpage>325</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>5</day>	<month>May</month>	<year>2014</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>25</day>	<month>June</month>	<year>2014</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>2</day>	<month>July</month>	<year>2014</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
	The formula subject to comment in Reference [1] is correct.
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Matrix Functions</kwd><kwd> Humbert Matrix Polynomials</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction and Motivation</title><p>This reply is written as an answer to the paper [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.48244-ref2">2</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.48244-ref3">3</xref>] .</p><p>In the comment [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.48244-ref2">2</xref>] , the author points out that the generating matrix function given in Formula (7) in our recently published paper [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.48244-ref1">1</xref>]</p><disp-formula id="scirp.48244-formula1647"><inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://file.scirp.org/Html/htmlimages\4-5300684x\2b5d4713-486c-4bc5-ac35-a967991ed9ab.png"/></disp-formula><p>is not true, because the domain is not clarified. And the author notes, that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://file.scirp.org/Html/htmlimages\4-5300684x\f46c1f9d-344c-4f41-a382-e02184a7631a.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>for that it can be zero, and then it is meaningless. Further he writes: “For this, first we have to observe that for matrix<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://file.scirp.org/Html/htmlimages\4-5300684x\5ba722cb-ee62-4d24-9126-832b326c9040.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we define <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://file.scirp.org/Html/htmlimages\4-5300684x\bab2efd3-bfd8-465f-9523-851d772ed309.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://file.scirp.org/Html/htmlimages\4-5300684x\137cf1e6-83c9-49c5-a723-ba767f19c829.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the exponential matrix. Of course, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://file.scirp.org/Html/htmlimages\4-5300684x\ab2d24e7-ec06-47a4-80e3-828e34c5a8bc.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>has sense only for<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://file.scirp.org/Html/htmlimages\4-5300684x\168053e3-ab92-45d5-ae24-182096d1fec6.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>”. To clarify the situation, let us write down the relation for any matrix <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://file.scirp.org/Html/htmlimages\4-5300684x\2437d784-4f4e-429a-80da-5f2382c676ef.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> in <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://file.scirp.org/Html/htmlimages\4-5300684x\34319b7d-88cc-4db6-bc8a-119c973a5aaa.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> the following relation</p><disp-formula id="scirp.48244-formula1648"><label>(1)</label><inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://file.scirp.org/Html/htmlimages\4-5300684x\0371b7fa-0d12-432d-9b3f-88f5248e26ea.png"/></disp-formula><p>holds [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.48244-ref4">4</xref>] (see also [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.48244-ref5">5</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.48244-ref6">6</xref>] ). From above we maintain that<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://file.scirp.org/Html/htmlimages\4-5300684x\b869fdd3-ccdc-46c3-8296-31374941237e.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, from above and from (1) we conclude our reply by noting that the relation ( Humbert matrix polynomials of two variables (7) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.48244-ref1">1</xref>] ) is generated by</p><disp-formula id="scirp.48244-formula1649"><inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://file.scirp.org/Html/htmlimages\4-5300684x\80dd6711-7bc8-4daa-8133-21480ba7fe26.png"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://file.scirp.org/Html/htmlimages\4-5300684x\966721b1-95c0-4333-ad54-45108b8758b3.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is positive integer.</p><p>In paper [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.48244-ref3">3</xref>] the author notes that in “Remark” comments that the double generating Formula (8) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.48244-ref7">7</xref>]</p><disp-formula id="scirp.48244-formula1650"><inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://file.scirp.org/Html/htmlimages\4-5300684x\58789b6e-4922-4e98-ac3c-63e8c7dda86e.png"/></disp-formula><p>is not true. We conclude our reply by noting that we consider our relation (8) with the help of (1) provided that</p><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://file.scirp.org/Html/htmlimages\4-5300684x\9327073f-c3c8-4390-8ce2-151ff1336b20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and not equal 1. Note that, in a variety of different research papers our own paper it</p><p>has been written with approximate resemblance with other papers in the methods, for example, Dattoli et al. [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.48244-ref8">8</xref>] and Pathan and Khan [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.48244-ref9">9</xref>] . In conclusion, we accept blame for not clarifying the domain because this perhaps causes misunderstanding for readers who are not totally familiar with literature in this area. However, note that even accepting Soler interpretation, from (1) which is written in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.48244-ref1">1</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.48244-ref7">7</xref>] and it is not mentioned in Soler comments [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.48244-ref2">2</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.48244-ref3">3</xref>] , the conjecture counter examples remain false in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.48244-ref2">2</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.48244-ref3">3</xref>] . However, our results are original and correct.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>AMS 2010 Subject Classification</title><p>Primary 33C45, 15A15. 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