Neutrino mixing angles from texture zeros of the lepton mass matrices

Taking into account the latest neutrino oscillation data, we study texture zeros of the lepton mass matrices. Assuming the Dirac neutrino mass matrix MD, the charged-lepton mass matrix Ml and the mass matrix of heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos MR to have three texture zeros, we show that the observed neutrino mixing angles can naturally be obtained. The phenomenological implications for the neutrino mass spectrum, the CP-violating phases, the tritium beta decay and the neutrinoless double-beta decay are explored.