%0 Journal Article %T Automatic CP Invariance and Flavor Symmetry %A Gautam Dutta %A Anjan S. Joshipura %J Physics %D 1996 %I arXiv %R 10.1142/S0217732396001867 %X The approximate conservation of $CP$ can be naturally understood if it arises as an automatic symmetry of the renormalizable Lagrangian. We present a specific realistic example with this feature. In this example, the global Peccei-Quinn symmetry and gauge symmetries of the model make the renormalizable Lagrangian $CP$ invariant but allow non zero hierarchical masses and mixing among the three generations. The left-right and a horizontal $U(1)_H$ symmetry is imposed to achieve this. The non-renormalizable interactions invariant under these symmetries violate $CP$ whose magnitude can be in the experimentally required range if $U(1)_H$ is broken at very high, typically, near the grand unification scale. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9602228v1