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GROUP-THEORETICAL DETERMINATION OF 4 THE MIXING ANGLE IN THE ELECTROWEAK 9 9 1 GAUGE GROUP∗ t c O 8 V. Aldaya1,2 M. Calixto1 J. Guerrero1,3 1 1 v 1 Abstract. The assumption that the Weinberg rotation between the gauge fields associated 3 1 with the third component of the “weak isospin” (T ) and the hypercharge (Y ) proceeds in a 0 3 1 4 natural way from a global homomorphism of the SU (2) ⊗ U (1) gauge group in some locally iso- 9 / morphic group (which proves to be U (2)), imposes strong restrictions so as to fix the single value h t - sin2 θW = 1/2. This result can be thought of only as being an asymptotic limit corresponding p e 2 2 2 2 h to an earlier stage of the Universe. It also lends support to the idea that e /g and 1 − MW /MZ : v are in principle unrelated quantities. i X r a There are two basic ingredients in the constitution of a model to describe the unified electroweak interactions, the Weinberg-Salam-Glashow Standard Model, which deserve 1Instituto de F´ısica Te´orica y Computacional Carlos I, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Fuentenueva, Granada 18002, Spain 2IFIC, Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia-CSIC, Burjasot 46100-Valencia,Spain. 3Departamento de F´ısica Te´orica y del Cosmos, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Cam- pus de Fuentenueva, Granada 18002, Spain ∗Work partially supported by the DGICYT. 0 further study and which lessen the (mathematical) beauty of the theory as a whole. One is the way