  In their comment on the paper (Phys. Rev. B 65, 153403 (2002);
cond-mat/0110154), Alexandrov and Bratkovsky (cond-mat/0207173) argue that they
correctly took into account the chemical potential oscillations in their
analytical theory of combination frequencies in multiband low-dimensional
metals by expanding the free energy in powers of the chemical potential
oscillations. In this reply, we show that this claim contradicts their original
paper (Phys. Rev. B 63, 033105 (2001)). We demonstrate that the condition given
for the expansion is mathematically incorrect. The correct condition allows to
understand the limits of validity of the analytical theory.
