Recent Theoretical Developments in the QCD Phase Diagram

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In this talk I discuss three recent developments in the theoretical understanding of the phase diagram of the strong interaction.

• The first topic deals with the comparison of model calculations of the quark-hadron transition at vanishing quark chemical potential with state-of-the-art lattice QCD results.
• In the second relates to the size of a possible 'quarkyonic phase'.
• The third deals with the occurence of inhomogeneous chiral phases.