Two-over-Two Lattice Flavor from a Single Flavon with Three Messenger Chains
Abstract
Flavor hierarchies are organized by a single parameter in a single-flavon Froggatt--Nielsen (FN) framework, in which each effective Yukawa entry arises from the sum of \emph{three} unit-magnitude messenger chains. We present benchmark complex Yukawa matrices that reproduce quark and charged-lepton masses at as powers of . The organizing principle is a two-over-two (2/2) lattice of quadrilateral mass ratios, which maps directly to a rational lattice of FN exponents. Sequential dominance preserves the leading-power exponent matrices, while subleading messenger chains generate entry-dependent complex coefficients and provide a UV-friendly origin for CP violation. Neutrino masses are discussed at the level of eigenvalues within the same counting.
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@article{arxiv.2602.18393,
title = {Two-over-Two Lattice Flavor from a Single Flavon with Three Messenger Chains},
author = {Vernon Barger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.18393},
year = {2026}
}