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Exact constraints on family-separated seesaw relations and their phenomenological consequences

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-07-18 v1

Abstract

Working at tree level and at a common renormalization scale, we examine the family-separated seesaw ansatz of Z.-z.~Xing, arXiv:2605.27049v2. For a fixed light-heavy pairing, imposing miUαiUβi+MiRαiRβi=0m_iU_{\alpha i}U_{\beta i}+M_iR_{\alpha i}R_{\beta i}=0 together with UU+RR=1UU^\dagger+RR^\dagger=\mathbf{1} yields the general exact solution U=VD1/2U=VD^{-1/2} and R=iVEdiag ⁣(ri/(1+ri))R=iVE\,\operatorname{diag}\!\left(\sqrt{r_i/(1+r_i)}\right), where ri=mi/Mir_i=m_i/M_i, D=diag(1+ri)D=\operatorname{diag}(1+r_i), VV is unitary, and E=diag(ηi)E=\operatorname{diag}(\eta_i) with ηi=±1\eta_i=\pm1. Consequently, UUU^\dagger U and RRR^\dagger R are diagonal, and distinct columns are exactly orthogonal. An exact unitary completion gives, in a convenient sterile basis, MR=DNDνM_R=D_N-D_\nu and Yν=(i/v)VE(DνDN)1/2Y_\nu=(i/v)VE(D_\nu D_N)^{1/2}, so that YνYν=DνDN/v2Y_\nu^\dagger Y_\nu=D_\nu D_N/v^2 is diagonal. In the canonical domain Mi>miM_i>m_i, the singlet masses relevant to the unbroken-phase decay description are M^i=Mimi>0\widehat{M}_i=M_i-m_i>0, distinct from the broken-phase heavy eigenvalues MiM_i. Hence, at the scale of exact alignment, all standard unflavored and flavored nonresonant one-loop decay asymmetries vanish in the nondegenerate perturbative regime. For mi=0m_i=0, the paired Yukawa column and decay width vanish instead. The flavor-summed rephasing-invariant combination used in the proposed asymmetry also cancels identically, although individual CP-odd invariants may remain nonzero. Thus the proposed correlation between low-energy CP violation and these decay asymmetries does not follow from exact family separation. This result does not address radiative misalignment, resonant or coherent dynamics, or thermal and higher-loop sources. We also correct the proposed heavy-mass reconstruction formulas and clarify the implications for neutrinoless double-beta decay, Yukawa scaling, parameter counting, and light-heavy mass orderings.

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@article{arxiv.2607.16658,
  title  = {Exact constraints on family-separated seesaw relations and their phenomenological consequences},
  author = {Jianlong Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.16658},
  year   = {2026}
}

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