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Past exam of the groups and representations course of the University of Oxford 2022 1 d i Solution by
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Use the basis of solution for the two doublets, treating the barred left-handed fields as the components to which the printed representation assignment applies. Write and . The doublet contribution to the Yukawa interaction is , so invariant tensors obeyThe first equation forces , since their factors are . The second sets . Thus the doublet invariant tensor is . The product of either doublet with has no trivial representation, whereas . ThereforeIf instead the unbarred left-handed doublet is chosen to transform by , its barred components transform by ; in that equivalent basis the upper block is . Exchanging the two left components relates these conventions. The singular value decomposition gives the same physical masses in either basis.
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