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Proposition: Common-statistic feasibility
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En01-B@2#prop:LP
For finite recorded alphabets and compact closed convex hulls , a positive common bounded-statistic gap exists if and only if .
For finite lists of family vertices, its optimal gap is the linear program
A finite nuisance grid represents a continuous family only after a uniform interpolation or optimization error is supplied.
Proof. A positive gap survives convexification and excludes an intersection. Disjoint compact convex sets admit a strict separating linear functional. Adding a constant to every coordinate and rescaling puts its coefficients in , since all law vectors sum to one. The displayed program is exactly the finite common-gap optimization.
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