In this work we study the reduced dynamics of a system embedded in a quantum environment, with the use of correlation functions produced through appropriately defined reduced generating functionals. Our construction is based on expressing these functionals in terms of consistently defined coherent-state path integrals in the framework of the Keldysh-Schwinger out-of-equilibrium formalism.
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