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Unitary matrices leave the expectation value unchanged.

We need the mixing matrix to be unitary (to preserve the mixed quarks as a basis, to preserve length);

if VCKM were not unitary, it would perhaps suggest that a fourth generation of

quarks needed to be considered or included.

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