Tenfold Way for Holography : AdS/CFT and Beyond

Abstract

The main purpose of the present paper is to lay the foundations of generalizing the AdS/CFT (holography) idea beyond the conformal setting. The main tool is to find suitable realizations of the bulk and boundary via group theory. We use all ten families of classical real semisimple Lie groups G and Lie algebras G. For this are used several group and algebra decompositions: the global Iwasawa decomposition and the local Bruhat and Sekiguchilike decomposititions. The same analysis is applied to the exceptional real semisimple Lie algebras.