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Higgs and Yukawa Structure in a Clifford Algebra Model with Three Generations and $S_3$ Family Symmetry

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We construct the Higgs and Yukawa sectors as a structural completion of an algebraic three-generation model based on the complex Clifford algebra $\mathbb{C}\ell(10)$ with an intrinsic $S_3$ family symmetry. This addresses a common limitation of algebraic frameworks, in which Standard Model fermion multiplets and gauge symmetries may be described naturally, while the Higgs and Yukawa sectors remain less developed or absent. In the present framework, three algebraically distinguished fermion sectors are permuted by $S_3$, while the Standard Model gauge generators remain generation-independent. Higgs components are realised as right-action operators mapping weak-doublet fermion sectors into the corresponding weak-singlet sectors, and Yukawa coefficients are extracted using a Hilbert--Schmidt trace pairing. This yields two first-generation Higgs doublets with electroweak quantum numbers $(1,2,-1)$ and $(1,2,+1)$ under $SU(3)_C \times SU(2)_L \times U(1)_Y$, together with a Type-II-like separation between down-type and up-type Yukawa channels. Acting with the order-three family generator then generates a family-resolved Higgs sector organised into cyclic $S_3$ orbits. In the cyclically averaged Higgs limit, the Type-II-like Yukawa selection rule is preserved, while the generation-space Yukawa matrix is fixed algebraically and is non-diagonal in the algebraic generation basis. Under the usual implementation of electroweak symmetry breaking, the neutral Higgs couplings are aligned with the corresponding mass matrices, so tree-level flavour-changing neutral currents are not expected in this limit. The result is a constrained algebraic starting point for future $S_3$-breaking flavour phenomenology.

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