SU(3) flavour: Gell-Mann matrices and multiplet decomposition

Where does a full three-flavour numerical evolution depart from the two-flavour formula, and by how much across the L/E range of a reactor and a long-baseline beam? Useful evidence includes a unitary PMNS matrix from three angles and a CP phase, survival probabilities from complex matrix exponentials, the two-flavour overlay, the L/E bands differing by over one percent, and the plane-wave assumption named.

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