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This write-up on a talk at the 2011 Lepton–Photon symposium in Mumbai, India, summarizes recent results in the charged-lepton flavour sector. Searches for charged-lepton flavour violation, lepton electric dipole moments and flavour-conserving CP violation are reviewed here. Recent progress in τ-lepton physics and in the Standard Model prediction of the muon anomalous magnetic moment is also discussed.

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The author is grateful to Alessandro Baldini, Swagato Banerjee, Robert Bernstein, Michel Davier, Tim Gershon, Herve Hiu Fai Choi, Yoshitaka Kuno, Alberto Lusiani, Bogdan Malaescu, James Miller, Toshinori Mori, Steven Robertson, Karim Trabelsi, Graziano Venanzoni and Zhiqing Zhang for their help with the preparation of the talk.

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HOECKER, A. Charged-lepton flavour physics . Pramana - J Phys 79, 1141–1167 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-012-0422-2

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