If three quarks are hypothetically spin-zero bosons, their total state is symmetric under particle exchange. In an symmetric spatial state, the unchanged antisymmetric three-quark colour singlet therefore requires an antisymmetric quark flavour state. With three flavours its space is , of dimension one. The sole flavour state contains one quark of each flavour and has total angular momentum zero.
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