The article by M. Wacławczyk et al. [Phys. Rev. E 90, 013022 (2014)] proposes two new statistical symmetries in the classical theory for turbulent hydrodynamic flows. In this Comment, however, we show that both symmetries are unphysical due to violating the principle of causality. In addition, they must get broken in order to be consistent with all physical constraints naturally arising in the statistical Lundgren-Monin-Novikov (LMN) description of turbulence. As a result, we state that besides the well-known classical symmetries of the LMN equations no new statistical symmetries exist. Finally, we criticize the relation between intermittency and global symmetries as it is presented throughout that study.

• Received 23 December 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.92.067001