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A String Theory of Flavor and CP

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arxiv 1908.00805 v1 pith:IQLDFQPW submitted 2019-08-02 hep-th hep-ph

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Modular transformations of string theory (including the well-known stringy dualities) play a crucial role in the discussion of discrete flavor symmetries in the Standard Model. They are at the origin of CP transformations and provide a unification of CP with traditional flavor symmetries. Here, we present a novel, fully systematic method to reliably compute the unified flavor symmetry of the low-energy effective theory, including enhancements from the modular transformations of string theory. The unified flavor group is non-universal in moduli space and exhibits the phenomenon of "Local Flavor Unification" where different sectors of the theory can be subject to different flavor structures.

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  1. Modular Flavor Symmetries and Fermion Mass Hierarchies

    hep-ph 2025-06 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    In modular flavor models, fermion mass hierarchies require the modulus to sit near the critical points i, i∞, or ω; the paper classifies the near-critical mass patterns for reducible 2⊕1 matter assignments.

  2. Flavor Symmetries and Winding Modes

    hep-th 2025-06 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    In the Z3 heterotic orbifold, the modular symmetry of the Kähler modulus is Gamma(3), and the discrete flavor symmetry Delta(27) arises from misaligned U(1) gauge symmetries that become massless at different critical points.

  3. Non-Abelian orbifolds of the SO(32) heterotic string

    hep-th 2025-06 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    Three non-Abelian orbifolds of the SO(32) heterotic string now have complete massless spectra, with unbroken gauge groups U(1)^2 x SO(26), U(1) x SO(26), and SO(26), showing rank reduction from 16 to 15, 14, or 13.

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