“…The matching calculation for two different models confirms the scalings and the completeness of the set of effective operators considered in [6]. We find that the criticism of Matagne and Stancu [11,12] of the usual 1/N c expansion for excited baryons [4,5,6,7,8,9,10] is unfounded, and the disagreement with existing work is due to ignoring operators transforming like nonsinglets under S sf N . As an application of our results, we point out that the models for quark dynamics dis- The spin-flavor baryon states are constructed by taking products of one-body states with spin and isospin |u ↑ , |u ↓ , |d ↑ , |d ↓ .…”