New Perspective on Fermion Mass Matrices

Abstract

It is shown that any $n\times n$ Dirac fermion mass matrix may be written as the sum of $n$ states of equal ``mass''. However, these states are in general not orthogonal. Thus the texture of any such fermion mass matrix may be understood as the nonzero overlap among these states.

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