Correlations between quark mass and flavor mixing hierarchies

Harald Fritzsch, Zhi-zhong Xing, Di Zhang

We calculate the quark flavor mixing matrix $V$ based on the Hermitian quark mass matrices $M_{\mathrm{u}}^{}$ and $M_{\mathrm{d}}^{}$ with vanishing $(1,1)$, $(1,3)$ and $(3,1)$ entries. Th…