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We investigate the options for imposing flavor symmetries on a minimal renormalizable non-supersymmetric SU(5) grand unified theory, without introducing additional flavor-related fields. Such symmetries reduce the number of free parameters in the model and therefore lead to more predictive models. We consider the Yukawa sector of the Lagrangian, and search for all possible flavor symmetries. As a result, we find 25 distinct realistic flavor symmetry cases, with ℤ2, ℤ3, ℤ4, and U(1) symmetries, and no non-Abelian cases.
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Lindestam, M., Ohlsson, T. & Pernow, M. Flavor symmetries in an SU(5) model of grand unification. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 9 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2022)009
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