Abstract
We review recent results on the θ dependence of the ground-state energy and spectrum of four-dimensional SU(N) gauge theories, where θ is the coefficient of the CP-violating topological term F F̃ in the Lagrangian. In particular, we discuss the results obtained by Monte Carlo simulations of the lattice formulation of QCD, which allow the investigation of θ dependence around θ = 0 by determining the moments of the topological charge distribution, and their correlations with other observables. The results for N = 3 and larger values of N support the scenario obtained by general large-N scaling arguments.[A longer write-up, along with a full list of references, can be found at [1]]
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