This is a short review of the proposal that CP violation may be due to the fact that certain finite groups do not admit a physical CP transformation. This origin of CP violation is realized in explicit string compactifications exhibiting the Standard Model spectrum.
Three types of groupsGiven these tools, one can distinguish between three types of groups [1]:Case I: for all involutory automorphisms u α of the flavor group there is at least one representation r i for which FS u α (r i ) = 0. Such discrete symmetries clash with CP.Case II: there exists an involutory automorphism u for which the FS u 's for all representations are non-zero. Then there are two sub-cases:Case II A: all FS u 's are +1 for one of those u's. In this case, there exists a basis with real Clebsch-Gordan coefficients. The BDA is then the automorphism of the physical CP transformation/ Case II B: some of the FS u 's are −1 for all candidate u's.That means that there exists no BDA, and, as a consequence, one cannot find a basis in which all CG's are real. Nevertheless, any of the u's can be used to define a CP transformation.