Confining complex ghost degrees of freedom

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2023.137924MaRDI QIDQ6097342zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Marco Frasca, A. Ghoshal, Alexey S. Koshelev

Publication date 5 June 2023

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.06394

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20) Bosonic systems in quantum theory (81V73)

Abstract: We show a theorem proving that a non-local bosonic field upon a covariant interaction with a confining gauge field undergoes the confinement of its degrees of freedom present in the free theory changing completely the physical mass spectrum following Kugo-Ojima criterion. This is applicable to an infinite number of excitations of the bosonic field including ghosts whereas we pay special attention to the modes with the complex conjugate masses, states appearing in the string field theory motivated infinite-derivative models. The same recipe will obviously work for the Lee-Wick models.

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