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Proposition: Deterministic packet selection

Recovery obstruction, deterministic packets, and balance · lines 1508–1519 · proof included or linked

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Let a convex domain of states be mapped affinely to classical probability distributions. If every output is a point mass, the output label is constant.

Proof. If have different point-mass outputs, an interior convex combination has the corresponding nontrivial mixture, not a point mass.

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