FIZIKA B 14 (2005)  1, 35 - 40

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

POLYGONAL DERIVATION OF THE NEUTRINO MASS MATRIX

ERNEST MA

Physics Department, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA

Dedicated to the memory of Professor Dubravko Tadić

Received 17 September 2004;    Accepted 20 June 2005
Online 18 November 2005

Representations of the symmetry group D_n of the n-sided regular polygon have generic multiplication rules if n is prime. Using D_n with n=5 or greater, a particular well-known form of the Majorana neutrino mass matrix is derived.

PACS numbers: 14.60.Pq
UDC 539.126

Keywords: Majorana neutrino mass matrix, representations of symmetry group D_n

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