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February 8, 20260 citationsOpen Access

An Across-the-Board No-Go Theorem for Exact Yukawa Prediction

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JRJeremy Rodgers

Key Points

  • The aim is to demonstrate that exact Yukawa couplings cannot be predicted by any physical law under defined conditions.
  • Utilized a closure-stable lawhood framework for analysis
  • Examined the Yukawa sector as a quotient parameter manifold
  • Applied determinant-based law comparisons using endomorphism invariants
  • Analyzed conditions under which unique Yukawa spectra can be predicted
  • Confirmed that exact Yukawa ratios are not fixed by other physically lawful constants
  • Demonstrated that any selector mechanism fails to give a unique Yukawa prediction
  • Established that conditioning on other invariants does not constrain Yukawa parameter space

Abstract

The Standard Model contains a set of continuous flavor parameters (Yukawa couplings) whose extreme hierarchies have long motivated the expectation that a deeper theory should predict their exact numerical values. This paper proves that this expectation is misplaced at the level of physical law. Working within a closure-stable lawhood framework that is already strong enough to fix nontrivial numerical invariants elsewhere (including the quantum probability exponent, the fine-structure constant, and the cosmological constant), we prove an across-the-board no-go theorem for exact Yukawa prediction. The physical Yukawa sector is shown to be a quotient parameter manifold, and non-fine-tuned admissibility requires viability on sets with nonempty interior. Under the no-silent-tie-breaking discipline, this blocks any law-level selector from outputting a unique Yukawa spectrum or exact mass ratio. We further show that although Yukawa data enter determinant-based law comparisons through coarse endomorphism invariants, even the strongest such Omega-projected scalar is not numerically fixed. Finally, we prove that conditioning on all other law-level invariants fixed by the framework does not collapse the Yukawa parameter space: exact Yukawa ratios are not implicitly determined by other constants. The result applies to any physically lawful framework supporting stable records, unique probability, closure invariance, non-arbitrary selection, and non-fine-tuned admissibility. Exact Yukawa ratios are therefore not law-level quantities but realization-level data. Any proposal that predicts exact Yukawa numbers must either introduce additional record-visible selector structure or relax the axioms required for lawhood itself.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/698828cb0fc35cd7a8848987https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18493242
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