title: Ambiguities in the up-quark mass.
abstract: It has long been known that no physical singularity is encountered as up-quark mass is adjusted from small positive to negative values as long as all other quarks remain massive. This is tied to an additive ambiguity in the definition of the quark mass. This calls into question the acceptability of attempts to solve the strong CP problem via a vanishing mass for the lightest quark.
authors.affiliation: Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Creutz