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Recent neutrino oscillation experiments have measured leptonic mixing angles with considerable precision. Many theoretical attempts to understand the peculiar mixing structure, observed in these measurements, are based on non-Abelian flavour symmetries. This talk concentrates exclusively on models based on the non-Abelian symmetry A 4. A 4 is particularly well suited to describe three family mixing, and allows to explain the near tri-bimaximal mixing observed. Special emphasis is put here on the discussion of the neutrinoless double beta decay observable 〈:m ν 〉. Different models based on A 4 with very similar predictions for neutrino angles can yield vastly different expectations for 〈m ν 〉. Neutrinoless double beta decay can thus serve, in principle, as a discriminator between different neutrino mass models.
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Hirsch, M. The neutrino mass matrix and (selected) variants of A 4 . Pramana - J Phys 72, 183–193 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-009-0015-x
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