(Reply to)${}^{\text{2}}$ "Comment on 'Flavor invariants and renormalization-group equations in the leptonic sector with massive Majorana neutrinos' "

Abstract

We respectfully reply to Wang et al.'s reply to our comment to their [JHEP $\text{09}$ (2021) 053]. Some more subtleties and details are discussed for hopefully better clarification and understanding, especially about the conditions in Hilbert's finiteness theorem. We also disprove Wang et al.'s incorrect assertion in their reply [arXiv:2110.13865 [hep-ph]] that there is an isomorphism between $\mathrm{U}(n,\mathbb{C})$ and $\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb{C})$. We give two proofs for our argument. One proof is in the context of Lie group for arbitrary positive integer $n$, and the other proof is in the context of abstract group for $n=3$ which can also be generalized to $n\ge 3$. In order to better illustrate the intrinsic differences between a compact Lie group and its complexification, we choose $\mathrm{SU}(n,\mathbb{C})$ and $\mathrm{SL}(n,\mathbb{C})$ as a pair of examples and give two proofs for the generally non-isomorphic relation between them. One proof is in the context of Lie group for integers $n\ge 2$, and the other proof is in the context of abstract group for $n=3$ which can again be generalized to $n\ge 3$.

Comments: 12 pages; a reply to [arXiv:2110.13865 [hep-ph]]; some details of expression have been improved in version 2. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2110.08210