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ChrisVer
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I am having some difficulties in understanding something I found. Speaking about CKM matrix for N quark generations...
I know that the Cabibbo Kobayashi Maskawa matrix is unitary, so it has N^2 free real parameters.
Although I cannot understand how by an overall face they get (2N-1) less :/
If I write:
VCKM= Uuτ Ud
and make a transformation:
VCKM= Uuτ Fuτ Fd Ud
how could it change my free parameters like 2N-1?
I know that the Cabibbo Kobayashi Maskawa matrix is unitary, so it has N^2 free real parameters.
Although I cannot understand how by an overall face they get (2N-1) less :/
If I write:
VCKM= Uuτ Ud
and make a transformation:
VCKM= Uuτ Fuτ Fd Ud
how could it change my free parameters like 2N-1?