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Non-invertible symmetry as an axion-less solution to the strong CP problem

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-05-13 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We use a non-invertible symmetry to construct a three-zero texture for the down-type quark mass matrix, which can resolve the strong CP problem without invoking the axion, in four-dimensional spacetime with three quark families in QCD. We assume CP invariance at the fundamental high-energy scale.

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@article{arxiv.2505.05142,
  title  = {Non-invertible symmetry as an axion-less solution to the strong CP problem},
  author = {Qiuyue Liang and Tsutomu T. Yanagida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.05142},
  year   = {2025}
}