An exhaustive scan of Δ(96) Modular Littlest Seesaw models yields 35 viable residual-symmetry patterns with new fixed PMNS columns and sharp, testable predictions beyond TM1.
Fermion mass relations in one-parameter modular models
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Modular flavour symmetries provide a possible organizing principle for the Standard Model Yukawa sector, by replacing generic couplings with a potentially small number of modular forms controlled by a single complex modulus. We study the extreme limit of this idea: \acp{OPM}, in which each charged-fermion mass matrix is fixed by a single modular invariant contraction. We develop a systematic method to construct such models, showing that the \ac{OPM} requirement is already highly constraining at the level of possible fermion hierarchies. In a concrete realization, the charged-lepton and down-quark sectors are controlled by the common modulus, leading to exact mass relations at the flavour scale, \[ m_s^5 = 2\sqrt{2}\,m_d^3m_b^2, \qquad m_\mu^3 = \sqrt{2}\,m_e m_\tau^2, \qquad m_s^2m_\tau = \sqrt{2}\,m_e m_b^2. \] We show that, once renormalization-group evolution and selective supersymmetric threshold effects are included, these high-scale relations can be made compatible with low-energy charged-fermion data. Our results provide a working proof of principle for \acp{OPM} and point towards a possible route to the flavour puzzle through highly
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Lepton mixing from the $\Delta(96)$ Modular Littlest Seesaw
An exhaustive scan of Δ(96) Modular Littlest Seesaw models yields 35 viable residual-symmetry patterns with new fixed PMNS columns and sharp, testable predictions beyond TM1.