Working in the framework of three chiral neutrinos with Majorana masses, we
, investigate a scenario first realized in an explicit model by Zee: that t
he neutrino mass matrix is strictly off-diagonal in the flavor basis, with
all its diagonal entries precisely zero. This CP-conserving ansatz leads to
two relations among the three mixing angles (theta(1),theta(2),theta(3)) a
nd two squared mass differences. We impose the constraint \m(3)(2) - m(2)(2
)\ >> \m(2)(2) - m(1)(2)\ to conform with experiment, which requires the th
eta(i) to lie nearby one of four 1-parameter domains in e-space. We exhibit
the implications for solar and atmospheric neutrino oscillations in each o
f these cases. A unique version of the Zee ansatz survives confrontation wi
th experimental data, one which necessarily involves maximal just-so vacuum
oscillations of solar neutrinos. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.
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