Comment on "QCD-factorization amplitudes from flavour symmetries: beyond the SU(3) symmetric case''
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Recently, a fit to $B \to PP$ decays ($P \in \{\pi, K, \eta, \eta'\}$) was performed (arXiv:2604.19612, "QCD-factorization amplitudes from flavour symmetries: beyond the $SU(3)$ symmetric case''}) using a formalism that combines topological diagrams with QCD factorization, and a good fit was found. We also recently performed such a fit, under the assumption that the $B \to PP$ amplitudes are related by flavour SU(3) symmetry, but we found a very poor fit. The two results therefore disagree with one another. The source of this disagreement is that we applied EWP-tree relations (ETRs). These were derived $\sim 30$ years ago, and relate different topological diagrams or reduced matrix elements, thus reducing the number of unknown parameters in the fit. In their paper, it is asserted that ETRs are invalid, so that analyses that use them are unreliable. We are writing this Comment to explain why this assertion is incorrect. The key point is that ETRs are mathematically rigorous, group theoretically. If SU(3) is unbroken, and the small Wilson coefficients $c_{7,8}$ in the weak effective Hamiltonian are neglected, ETRs follow automatically and are exact. That is, this is a group theory result -- no hadronic calculations are involved. In this Comment, we also point out several weaknesses of their formalism.
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