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Theorem: Conditional propagation-depth lower bound
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XXII-D@1#thm:depth, XXII-D@1#eq:depth-lower
Under Specification spec:bounded-step, suppose
Let be the target spatial displacement and suppose . Then
If each round has calibrated duration , measured from the declared source-input cut, then that execution duration is at least the right side of (eq:depth-lower) multiplied by .
Proof. Lemma lem:no-path forces a dependency path. If it contains spatially nonzero hops, the triangle inequality gives
The reverse triangle inequality gives . This proves the integer bound. The duration statement is the declared round-duration convention.
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