Confining complex ghost degrees of freedom
High Energy Physics - Theory
2023-04-25 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
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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@article{arxiv.2207.06394,
title = {Confining complex ghost degrees of freedom},
author = {Marco Frasca and Anish Ghoshal and Alexey S. Koshelev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.06394},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
9 pages, no figures. Version accepted for publication in Physics Letters B