Transporting the De Morgan parity lower bound #
The literal De Morgan lower bound extends to every realized macro basis, both for chosen implementation costs and for intrinsic minimum AND/OR costs.
Every circuit over a basis realized by De Morgan circuits pays at least
3 * (n - 1) for parity, when each source gate is charged by the binary-gate
cost of its implementation.
The intrinsic form of the transported parity bound. Each source operation is charged by its minimum possible De Morgan AND/OR implementation cost, not by an arbitrary initially selected gadget.
If every macro operation has intrinsic De Morgan AND/OR cost at most K,
then the ordinary source gate count satisfies the ceiling-divided parity lower
bound.
Conventional unit-cost corollary: if every source operation has a chosen
De Morgan implementation of at most K gates, then parity requires at least
the ceiling of 3 * (n - 1) / K source gates.