Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1998-12-21
Nucl.Phys. B553 (1999) 559-582
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
25 pages, TEX file using harvmac.tex; v2: misprints corrected; to appear in Nuclear Physics B
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00284-9
We give a group-theoretic interpretation of the AdS/CFT correspondence as relation of representation equivalence between representations of the conformal group describing the bulk AdS fields $\phi$ and the coupled boundary fields $\phi_0$ and ${\cal O}$. We use two kinds of equivalences. The first kind is equivalence between bulk fields and boundary fields and is established here. The second kind is the equivalence between coupled boundary fields. Operators realizing the first kind of equivalence for special cases were given by Witten and others - here they are constructed in a more general setting from the requirement that they are intertwining operators. The intertwining operators realizing the second kind of equivalence are provided by the standard conformal two-point functions. Using both equivalences we find that the bulk field has in fact two boundary fields, namely, the coupled boundary fields. Thus, from the viewpoint of the bulk-boundary correspondence the coupled fields are on an equal footing. Our setting is more general since our bulk fields are described by representations of the Euclidean conformal group $G=SO(d+1,1)$, induced from representations $\tau$ of the maximal compact subgroup $SO(d+1)$ of $G$. From these large reducible representations we can single out representations which are equivalent to conformal boundary representations labelled by the conformal weight and by arbitrary representations $\mu$ of the Euclidean Lorentz group $M=SO(d)$, such that $\mu$ is contained in the restriction of $\tau$ to $M$. Thus, our boundary-to-bulk operators can be compared with those in the literature only when for a fixed $\mu$ we consider a 'minimal' representation $\tau=\tau(\mu)$ containing $\mu$.
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