Joint source envelopes under deterministic transcript messages #
A left message restricts each original source event, so copying the old envelope to every message bounds the updated joint masses. Its total grows by the message alphabet's size. A right message scales each envelope by the message probability, preserving the total for a normalized right kernel. The same laws compose when the right message depends on the left message.
These are finite mass bounds underlying the conditional-entropy accounting in Chattopadhyay--Liao, Extractors for Sum of Two Sources (2021), proof of Theorem 6.1, printed pp.22--25, using the deterministic observation rule of Lemma 3.25: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12652. The bounds apply to the actual updated kernels, including null observation rows; they impose no individual conditional entropy requirement.
Updating a nonnegative transcript envelope by nonnegative message weights preserves its sign.
Observed source masses are exactly the original joint message-and-source masses.
Copying the old envelope to each left message bounds the updated joint source law.
A right message scales the source envelope by its own probability, leaving the source intact.
A right kernel of total mass one preserves the total source envelope exactly.
A left message followed by an adaptive right message has the composed joint envelope.
The adaptive two-message envelope pays only for the left message alphabet.