lemmaroutine
Buffer overflow events are rare
Overflow has conditional probability at most
rarity input for charging overflow errors
Lemma·
lem:buf-rarity·§8.4 Charging overflow eventsStatement (paper)
At every specified endpoint,
The same bound holds with the narrower endpoint condition .
Moreover, for every prefix mean row supremum,
In plain English
Conditioned on the specified endpoint events (such as , or the narrower ), the overflow event has probability at most . Consequently, masking a prefix mean row supremum by gives norm at most .
Why it's here
This is the rarity input for the overflow-charging argument: because is unlikely even given endpoint conditioning, the mean part of the true-type first-overflow error can be bounded by enlarging the actual first-overflow event to . The norm bound follows from the probability bound by Hölder, which yields the gain. The conditioning on retained endpoints is handled with the pair-retention estimates of the rank channel lemma, which only inflate probabilities by constant factors.
Classified routine:
Follows from the rank-channel retention estimates (lem-env-ranks) by a Markov/counting bound on the overflow event, then Hölder's inequality to convert the probability bound into the masked norm bound; standard bookkeeping within the paper's overflow-charging argument.
Sources
PaperOpen
- Section
- §8.4 Charging overflow events
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- Label
lem:buf-rarity- Line
sections/compression.tex:411
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