Intertwining operator realization of anti-de Sitter holography (Q2349731)

The focus here is on the holographic principle of the AdS/CFT correspondence within conformal field theory as well as string theory. Its construction uses three-dimensional Minkowski space-time and representation theory of real semisimple Lie groups. In essence, what is given in this paper is a group-theoretic setting of holography. It is shown that there is a connection between boundary fields and representations of the anti-de Sitter algebra which describes bulk fields. In previous papers the spin was assumed to be zero. Here, the spin is arbitrary but integer. The main result of this article is the method for an explicit construction of intertwining operators leading from the boundary to the bulk and reverse. The paper has five sections. Section 1 provides an introduction. Section 2 gives preliminaries on the anti-de Sitter algebra. Section 3 discusses the eigenvalue problem in the bulk. Section 4 provides the operator from the bulk to the boundary. Section 5 establishes the intertwining properties of the boundary-to-bulk operator as well as the bulk-to boundary operator. The eigenvalue equation involving the Casimir operator is used to obtain the two-point Green's function in the bulk.