{
  "title": "Lorentzian, Nonequilibrium, and Chaotic Holography: validity and failure map",
  "chapter": "Lorentzian, Nonequilibrium, and Chaotic Holography",
  "kind": "validity-failure",
  "schematic": true,
  "not_to_scale": true,
  "stages": [
    "real-time contour and state",
    "Lorentzian bulk geometry",
    "initial and horizon conditions",
    "poles, response, and chaos tests",
    "time-window conclusion"
  ],
  "claims": [
    {
      "object": "retarded response",
      "required_declaration": "source convention and infalling condition",
      "diagnostic": "flux and Kramers-Kronig checks",
      "licensed_conclusion": "a causal Green function",
      "unsupported_promotion": "all Schwinger-Keldysh correlators"
    },
    {
      "object": "quasinormal mode",
      "required_declaration": "background, channel, and boundary condition",
      "diagnostic": "pole and convergence test",
      "licensed_conclusion": "linear relaxation scale",
      "unsupported_promotion": "nonlinear thermalization time"
    },
    {
      "object": "scrambling or plateau",
      "required_declaration": "operator ordering, N, and time limits",
      "diagnostic": "OTOC or spectral benchmark",
      "licensed_conclusion": "behavior in the stated window",
      "unsupported_promotion": "exact finite-N irreversibility"
    }
  ],
  "takeaway": "Real-time holography depends on contour, state preparation, causal boundary conditions, and a declared time window; horizons do not fix exact late time."
}