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Observable consequences of non-invertible symmetries in the Standard Model

In plain words

Some symmetries of the Standard Model, thought to be destroyed by quantum effects, survive in a form with no undo. Which measurable predictions follow from them is unclear.

Precise statement

The ABJ-anomalous axial U(1) symmetries of QED and of the Standard Model retain non-invertible rational-angle subgroups (Choi, Lam, Shao 2022; Cordova, Ohmori 2022). Determine the exact selection rules and constraints on observables (neutral pion decay, axion couplings, neutrino masses) that follow from them beyond ordinary anomaly matching.

What would settle it

A derivation of an exact constraint on a measurable quantity that follows from the non-invertible symmetry and not from ordinary anomaly matching.

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