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Past exam of the groups and representations course of the University of Oxford 2025 1 e Solution by
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Choose the doublet bases so that the column of barred fields and both transform by the doublet matrices in d. This choice follows the source's assignment of the barred doublet itself. Since transforms in , its Yukawa coupling must multiply a fermion bilinear in .
There is exactly one such bilinear in : the Clebsch-Gordan coefficients in d give . Equivalently, writing the upper block of the Yukawa matrix as , invariance requiresThe first equation sets , because ; the second sets .
A mixed doublet-singlet bilinear remains a doublet after multiplication by , so all four mixed entries vanish. Finally transforms in , and multiplication by makes it invariant. ThereforeThe allowed Yukawa interaction is , together with its Hermitian conjugate when forming a real Lagrangian density.
The displayed texture depends on basis. If instead the unbarred left doublet is assigned in the same ordering as the right doublet, its barred doublet has the dual representation and the equivalent upper block is . Exchanging the two barred components converts between these descriptions. In either convention there are exactly two independent complex Yukawa couplings.
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