Sumset extraction from good source fixings #
If a fraction at least θ of second-source inputs leave both output values
with conditional probability at least ρ, then both unconditional output
probabilities are at least ρ * θ. All averages count source pairs, even
when their XOR values coincide. This finite step connects the majority
analysis to the sumset-extraction contract.
The intended source reduction is Chattopadhyay and Liao, Extractors for Sum
of Two Sources (2021), Lemma 5.4. Its sampler and correlation breaker are
constructed, and shown to supply the good fixings, in SourceReduction.
A lower bound on both conditional output masses, on a large fraction of second-source fixings, gives extraction with the corresponding error.
The majority route only needs half of second-source fixings to give
both outputs mass at least 1/36. This yields error 35/72, below one half.