Non-perturbative Lee-Wick gauge theory: Towards Confinement and RGE with strong couplings

Abstract

We consider a non-Abelian Lee--Wick gauge theory and discuss Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) invariance. It contains fourth-order derivative as extensions of the kinetic term, leading to massive ghosts in the theory upon quantization. We particularly provide essential clues towards confinement conditions in strongly-coupled regimes, using the Kugo-Ojima approach, and obtain the $\beta -$functions in the non-perturbative regimes. This is achieved using a set of exact solutions of the corresponding local theory in terms of Jacobi elliptical functions. We obtain a similar $\beta -$function just as for the ordinary Yang-Mills theory but the main differences are that now, the cut-off arises naturally from the Lee-Wick heavy mass scales (M). We show that the fate of the ghosts is fixed in these regimes: they are no more the propagating degrees of freedom in the infrared (IR)-limit. As it also happens for the ordinary case, confinement is due to the non-Abelian nature of the theory. In the limit $M\to \infty$, one recovers the standard results for the local non-Abelian Yang-Mills theory.

28 pages, 1 figure. Version accepted for publication in Classical and Quantum Gravity. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2106.07629

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