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Causality and the conformal boundary of AdS space in real time holography

Alberto Enciso*

Niky Kamran

  • Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 28049 Madrid, Spain

  • Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 2K6

  • *aenciso@icmat.es
  • nkamran@math.mcgill.ca

Phys. Rev. D 85, 106016 – Published 30 May, 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.106016

Abstract

We consider the holographic prescription problem in a (Lorentzian) AdS background, deriving from first principles the explicit formulas that relate the field at infinity with the field in the bulk. In contrast with the previous studies of the “real-time” holography problem, our derivation uses purely classical arguments that involve causality, as in the usual treatment of the holographic prescription problem in Wick-rotated spaces of Euclidean signature. We show that there is a unique propagator that preserves causality and see that this provides a simple picture of the relationship between the bulk manifold and its conformal boundary.

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