Recent content by mitchell porter

Penrose's "Road to Reality", then Polchinski's "String Theory". But if you haven't learned calculus you have a long road ahead.

"Finite-Size Heavy-Diquarks and State-Dependent Corrections to Heavy Antiquark-Diquark Symmetry" (Yang, Wu) Paper on how finite size of the diquark (compared to the pointlike nature of the quark) breaks "heavy antiquark-diquark symmetry" (HADS), which is a form of Savage and Wise's...

"Descartes Curvature Geometry, Compact-Cycle Amplitudes, and the GST Cabibbo Seed" (Andrew M. Brilliant) A paper about the Koide formula that I almost missed since it only mentions Koide in the bibliography, but the body of the paper mentions some who built on Koide, like Shulga and Kocik. The...

It was good enough for someone else to join the Koide-Alikhanov train: "A Catalog of Lepton Mass Textures from Koide and Alikhanov Relations" (Sheikh Saad) The author has previously worked on grand unification, so this constitutes a continued mainstreaming of Koide, by treating it as the...

"A Texture of Leptons for the Koide and Alikhanov relations" (Alessandro Strumia) Alikhanov's relation is a new neutrino mass formula mentioned in #5 of the new thread "Published electroweak coincidences". Strumia notes an abstract similarity to the Koide formula, and then proposes a number of...

"Making the Great Desert Bloom" (Distler, Karch) This paper proposes that a specific 3D CFT is the holographic dual of the standard model on AdS4. The dual is a Chern-Simons theory described in section 4, starting on page 9, where we get the Chern-Simons gauge group, with fermions on page 10...

"Revisiting the U(1)-CP tension in QCD from a 1PI-action perspective" (Paolo Di Vecchia, Francesco Sannino, Graham M. Shore, Gabriele Veneziano, Shimon Yankielowicz) This paper explores the relationship between two issues of QCD: why the strong CP-violating parameter θ is effectively zero (most...

"On the Flavor Yukawa coupling for the Lepton Mass Hierarchy and the Koide Relation" (Olivier Rousselle) This paper builds on #327 by Shulga, using ansatze in a QFT framework. The author is French and cites the oft-overlooked Francis Goffinet; he seems to have a math PhD from Sorbonne and some...

"The Very Nearly Right Theory of Flavor" (Arkani-Hamed, Figueiredo, Hall, Andrea Manzari) Even more than #319, this seems compatible with the waterfall since it is complementary - it's about the phases in the quark mass matrices, rather than the mass eigenvalues. I just had a long dialog with...

Meanwhile, AI has also pointed out to me "The exact column texture: tree-level Yukawa universality in heterotic Z_3 x Z_3 orbifolds" (Navid Ardakanian) which claims (section 8.3) that up-quark and down-quark yukawa matrices in this class of models are, in a first approximation...

I wondered what this is and found an older comment from you https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/is-the-near-integer-muon-to-electron-mass-ratio-a-coincidence-or-significant.1058414/#post-6979218 AI suggests you are combining "“A New Approach to the Electron-Muon Mass Ratio" (and successor...

In "Fermion mass relations in one-parameter modular models", page 18, we are given an ansatz m_e : m_µ : m_τ = 4√2 ϵ^6 : 2 ϵ^2 : 1 Is this like any of the rewritten forms of Koide?

π/12 appears as part of a formula for a Koide phase in the neutral leptons (see Brannen's "Koide Mass Formula for Neutrinos"), not charged leptons. The phase for the latter is 2/9 radians (no appearance of π). The neutrino masses are not known with great precision and so there is no empirical...

It's standard MOND lore that MOND doesn't quite work for galaxy clusters - it has its own "missing mass" problem, or need for dark matter, on the cluster scale. This paper is actually extending that result to an even bigger, inter-cluster scale. So one way to maintain MOND is to say that there...

Neither author has prior work on Koide that I can see. Hübner did some QCD and thus he knows QFT topics like renormalization schemes. Shulga worked on qubits from a physical rather than computational perspective (e.g. superconducting qubits), and maybe something there inspired his mechanism. But...