${\mathscr {M}}$cTEQ (${\mathscr {M}}$ ${\bf c}$hiral perturbation theory-compatible deconfinement ${\bf T}$emperature and ${\bf E}$ntanglement Entropy up to terms ${\bf Q}$uartic in curvature) and FM (${\bf F}$lavor ${\bf M}$emory)

TL;DR

This paper computes the deconfinement temperature in holographic QCD-like theories at intermediate coupling using M-theory duals, demonstrating non-renormalization beyond one loop and establishing connections between entanglement entropy, curvature corrections, and flavor memory effects.

Contribution

It introduces a novel UV-IR mixing and provides evidence for non-renormalization of the deconfinement temperature beyond one loop in M-theory compatible perturbation theory, linking it to entanglement entropy and flavor memory effects.

Findings

Deconfinement temperature remains uncorrected at quartic order in curvature.

Identifies a flavor memory effect in M-theory uplifts affecting metric corrections.

Establishes equivalence between entanglement entropy and Wald entropy computations.

Abstract

A holographic computation of $T_c$ at ${\it intermediate\ coupling}$ from M-theory dual of thermal QCD-like theories, has been missing in the literature. Filling this gap, we demonstrate a novel UV-IR mixing, (conjecture and provide evidence for) a non-renormalization beyond 1 loop of ${\bf M}-{\bf c}$hiral perturbation theory arXiv:2011.04660[hep-th]-compatible deconfinement ${\bf T}$emperature, and show equivalence with an ${\bf E}$ntanglement (as well as Wald) entropy arXiv:0709.2140[hep-th] computation, up to terms ${\bf Q}$uartic in curvature. We demonstrate a ${\bf F}$lavor-${\bf M}$emory (FM) effect in the M-theory uplifts of the gravity duals, wherein the no-braner M-theory uplift retains the "memory" of the flavor D7-branes of the parent type IIB dual in the sense that a specific combination of the aforementioned quartic corrections to the metric components precisely along the compact part of the non-compact four-cycle "wrapped" by the flavor D7-branes, is what determines, e.g., the Einstein-Hilbert action at O$(R^4)$. The same linear combination of O$(R^4)$ metric corrections, upon matching the phenomenological value of the coupling constant of one of the SU(3) NLO ChPT Lagrangian, is required to have a definite sign. Interestingly, in the decompactification limit of the spatial circle, we ${\it derive}$ this, and obtain the values of the relevant O$(R^4)$ metric corrections. Further, equivalence with Wald entropy for the black hole at ${\cal O}(R^4)$ imposes a linear constraint on the same linear combination of metric corrections. Remarkably, when evaluating $T_c$ from an entanglement entropy computation in the thermal gravity dual, due to a delicate cancelation between the ${\cal O}(R^4)$ corrections from a subset of the abovementioned metric components, one sees that there are no corrections to $T_c$ at quartic order supporting the conjecture referred to above.