Confining complex ghost degrees of freedom

Autor: Marco Frasca, Anish Ghoshal, Alexey S. Koshelev
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Physics Letters B, Vol 841, Iss , Pp 137924- (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0370-2693
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2023.137924
Popis: 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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