The defect cube #
Statements for paper Section 5.1 (sec:construction) and the Navascués–Wolfe part of
Section 5.3 (sec:survival): Lemma 5.4 (lem:disjoint), Lemma 5.5 (lem:triangle-law),
Lemma 5.6 (lem:symmetry) and Lemma 5.9 (lem:diag), together with the general
independence lemma for functions of disjoint coordinate sets under a product weight that
those proofs use. Proofs are deferred.
Independence under a product weight #
The general fact behind the paper's repeated phrase "outputs that are functions of disjoint families of independent bits are independent".
Swapping the I-coordinates of a pair of assignments preserves the product weight of
the pair.
The expectation form of independence: real-valued functions of disjoint coordinate sets have uncorrelated expectations under a product weight.
The finite-family expectation form: real-valued functions of pairwise disjoint coordinate sets have a product expectation under a product weight.
Two functions of disjoint coordinate sets are independent under a product weight.
The finite-family form: functions of pairwise disjoint coordinate sets are mutually independent under a product weight.
Disjoint ancestry gives disjoint inputs (Lemma 5.4) #
Paper Lemma 5.4 (lem:disjoint), "disjoint inputs": ancestrally independent sets of
copied observations read disjoint sets of defect cells and have distinct private bits.
Ancestrally independent sets of copied observations are disjoint; each observation is its own ancestor's descendant, so an observation in both would share ancestry with itself.
The restriction of the defect-cube outputs to a set of copied observations depends only on the root bits in its root support.
The defect law #
Pushforwards compose.
The defect law is the pushforward of the root product weight along a map of root bits.
Paper Lemma 5.4 (lem:disjoint), independence: under the defect law the outputs of two
ancestrally independent sets of copied observations are independent.
The finite-family form of paper Lemma 5.4, which is what the ancestral-independence prescriptions of Definition 2.4 require.