Conditioning finite sources without discarding zero-mass rows #
Every row is normalized, with a uniform completion at null events. Exact factorization recovers the original joint law. Total variation from a fresh uniform output equals the average conditional distance, retaining the actual first marginal. These identities support finite leakage and independence merging without a pointwise conditional entropy assumption.
Every conditional row of a probability law is normalized, including null rows.
Appending an independent uniform coordinate preserves normalization.
Replacing the second coordinate by fresh uniform randomness preserves probability.
Distance from a conditionally uniform output averages the exact row distances.
Retaining a nonnegative mixture tag averages distance from conditionally uniform output.
Observing the first coordinate commutes with adding independent uniform randomness.
Forgetting side information cannot increase the distance from an independent uniform output.