Actual first refreshes in the opposite-advice flip-flop argument #
The common transcript records the right input pair and all four first look-ahead outputs. Each refresh reads the original right source. The first-output refresh retains this transcript and the full left state. The second-output refresh additionally retains the tampered refresh seeded by the tampered first output.
The seed errors are derived from the original first extraction or the actual two-round look-ahead theorem. The only seed-discrepancy hypothesis concerns the original prefix. Source hypotheses are joint envelopes, not bounds on every conditional row. The four left outputs are appended after extraction using the retained left state, so no seed is assumed uniform after revealing itself. Exact observation laws and envelope totals support subsequent repair and extraction steps.
These are finite first-phase steps in Chattopadhyay--Goyal--Li, Non-Malleable Extractors and Codes, with their Many Tampered Extensions (2015), Algorithm 1 and the proof of Lemma 6.8, printed pp.28--30: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.00107. The complete opposite-advice security argument and its iteration are separate results.
Recording the right pair and all four left outputs preserves the full factored joint law.
The common transcript and both conditional kernels are normalized, including null rows.
The first-output refresh and its complete retained state have a normalized actual law.
The second-output refresh, stored tampered refresh, and left state are normalized.
The common transcript preserves nonnegativity of the left source envelope.
The common transcript preserves nonnegativity of the right source envelope.
The original left source has the stated joint envelope under the common transcript.
The original right source has the stated joint envelope under the common transcript.
The total left source envelope pays only for the four-output left message alphabet.
The total right source envelope pays only for the right-input pair alphabet.
The first refresh is a right-only map once the common transcript fixes its seed.
Dropping the left state gives the exact refreshed seed law over the common transcript.
Revealing the tampered refresh preserves an exact successive-observation factorization.
The second refresh is right-only after the common transcript and tampered refresh.
The actual first-output refresh is nearly uniform given the full left state and transcript.
The actual second-output refresh is nearly uniform even retaining the tampered first refresh.