“…The Schechter LF slopes α (Fig. 1) determined in a series of papers by Bouwens, Illingworth, and their coauthors [4,5] , which we use below (see also numerous important references in [6,11,12,16,20] ), depend significantly on redshift. Note that the MF slope computed in hierarchical clustering models without the allowance for mergers [1,2,3] does not depend on z.…”