Confining complex ghost degrees of freedom

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.

9 pages, no figures. Version accepted for publication in Physics Letters B

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