# Schwinger-Keldysh techniques (in holography)
## Refs
- originals: Schwinger1961 and Keldysh1964
- bulk dual developed in [[2008#Skenderis, van Rees (May)]] and [[2008#Skenderis, van Rees (Dec)]]
- see also [[0440 grSK geometry]]
## Applications
- used in [[2016#Dong, Lewkowycz, Rangamani]] to derive [[0007 RT surface|HRT]]
- it was needed to turn real Euclidean path integrals used for RT surfaces to HRT surfaces
- e.g. can use to generalise [[MarolfWangWang2020]]
- Lorentzian replica spacetime: [[2020#Colin-Ellerin, Dong, Marolf, Rangamani, Wang]]
## Properties
- a paper on relation between Euclidean sources and Lorentzian spacetimes [[2017#Marolf, Parrikar, Rabideau, Rad, van Raamsdonk]] #toread
## Examples
- scalar correlation functions in BTZ
- [[DimitrovMayersonMin2021]][](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.08197.pdf)
- [[Melo2021]][](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.09119.pdf)
- finds additional cross-terms between real and imaginary fields making the propagator matrix 3 by 3 rather than 2 by 2
- higher spins
- [[2023#Hao]]