Holographic entanglement entropy is cutoff-covariant

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Abstract: This paper addresses two aspects concerning the heta-vacuum of Quantum Chromodynamics. First, large-Nc chiral perturbation theory is used to calculate the first two non-trivial cumulants of the distribution of the winding number, i.,e. the topological susceptibility, chimathrmtop, and the fourth cumulant, c4, up to next-to-leading order. Their large-Nc scaling is discussed, and compared to lattice results. It is found that chimathrmtop=mathcalO(Nc0), as known before, and c4=mathcalO(Nc−3), correcting the assumption of mathcalO(Nc−2) in the literature. Second, we discuss the properties of QCD at hetasimpi using chiral perturbation theory for the case of 2+1 light flavors, i.,e. by taking the strange quark mass heavier than the degenerate up and down quark masses. It is shown that --- in accordance with previous findings for Nf=2 and Nf=3 mass-degenerate flavors --- in the region hetasimpi two vacuum states coexist, which become degenerate at heta=pi. The wall tension of the energy barrier between these degenerate vacua is determined as well as the decay rate of a false vacuum.












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