  In 2017, G. P. de Brito and co-workers suggested a covariant generalization
of the Kempf-Mangano algebra in a $(D+1)$-dimensional Minkowski space-time [A.
Kempf and G. Mangano, Phys. Rev. D \textbf{55}, 7909 (1997); G. P. de Brito, P.
I. C. Caneda, Y. M. P. Gomes, J. T. Guaitolini Junior, and V. Nikoofard, Adv.
High Energy Phys. \textbf{2017}, 4768341 (2017)]. It is shown that
reformulation of a real scalar field theory from the viewpoint of the covariant
Kempf-Mangano algebra leads to an infinite derivative Klein-Gordon wave
equation which describes two bosonic particles in the free space (a usual
particle and a ghostlike particle). We show that in the low-energy
(large-distance) limit our infinite derivative scalar field theory behaves like
a Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator for a spatially homogeneous field configuration
$\phi(t,\vec{\textbf{x}})=\phi(t)$. Our calculations show that there is a
characteristic length scale $\delta$ in our model whose upper limit in a
four-dimensional Minkowski space-time is close to the nuclear scalar, i.e.,
$\delta_{max}\sim \delta_{nuclear\ scale}\sim 10^{-15}\, m$. Finally, we show
that there is an equivalence between a non-local real scalar field theory with
a non-local form factor ${\cal K}(x-y)=
-\frac{\square_x}{(1-\frac{\delta^2}{2}\square_x)^2} \ \delta^{(D+1)}(x-y)$ and
an infinite derivative real scalar field theory from the viewpoint of the
covariant Kempf-Mangano algebra.
