BCP3: Summary of Theory

I discuss a number of the highlights in theory presented at the BCP3 conference. These included new, and more stringent, CKM fits; a critical overview of heavy hadron lifetimes; progress in computing rates and CP-asymmetries in charmless B-decays; a thorough discussion of the implications of the new results on $\epsilon^{\prime}/\epsilon$; and, finally, a peek at the future, trying to estimate how well one is going to be able to measure the unitarity triangle angles.Comment: To appear in the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on B Physics and CP Violation, Taipei, Taiwan, December 3-7, 199

CP Violation: A Theoretical Review

This review of CP violation focuses on the status of the subject and its likely future development through experiments in the Kaon system and with B-decays. Although present observations of CP violation are perfectly consistent with the CKM model, we discuss the theoretical and experimental difficulties which must be faced to establish this conclusively. In so doing, theoretical predictions and experimental prospects for detecting $\Delta S=1$ CP violation through measurements of $\epsilon^\prime/\epsilon$ and of rare K decays are reviewed. The crucial role that B CP-violating experiments will play in elucidating this issue is emphasized . The importance of looking for evidence for non-CKM CP-violating phases, through a search for a non-vanishing transverse muon polarization in $K_{\mu 3}$ decays, is also stressed.Comment: 27 pages, LaTex, 5 encapsulated postscript figures (uuencoded in separate file) embedded with epsfig.st