Actual laws for smooth independence merging #
The original left state determines the honest source, every tampered source, and the actual prefix. The original right state determines all seeds after that prefix. The two sides are independent only conditional on the original transcript; observing the prefix is an exact update of that factored law. Source and seed hypotheses concern their actual joint laws, and the output retains the original right state and prefix.
These definitions support the smooth-source independence-merging step in Chattopadhyay--Liao, Extractors for Sum of Two Sources (2021), Theorem 6.1, using Lemma 3.26: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12652. No statistical claim is part of the definitions.
The honest original source together with the selected original tampered source copies.
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Actual seed copies after the original left prefix, retaining the selected tampered seeds.
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Actual extraction retaining the original prefix, full right state, and union of tamperings.
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