https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3563-x
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
A conducting surface in Lee–Wick electrodynamics
1
IFQ-Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Av. BPS 1303, Pinheirinho, Caixa Postal 50, Itajubá, MG, 37500-903, Brazil
2
IFT-Rua Dr. Bento Teobaldo Ferraz, 271, Bairro: Barra-Funda, São Paulo, SP, 01140-070, Brazil
* e-mail: fbarone@unifei.edu.br
Received:
29
October
2014
Accepted:
6
July
2015
Published online:
22
July
2015
Lee–Wick electrodynamics in the vicinity of a conducting plate is investigated. The propagator for the gauge field is calculated and the interaction between the plate and a point-like electric charge is computed. The boundary condition imposed on the vector field is taken to be the one that makes, on the plate, the normal component of the dual field strength to the plate vanish. It is shown that the image method is not valid in Lee–Wick electrodynamics.
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