Constant directing measures: the degenerate case of de Finetti #
At a constant random measure ω ↦ p, the conditional and mixture identities coincide. Thus an
i.i.d. sequence is conditionally i.i.d. with its common law as a constant directing measure.
The equivalence itself holds at an arbitrary index type
(conditionallyIIDWith_const_of_mixedIIDWith, conditionallyIIDWith_const_iff_mixedIIDWith).
The named-law constant-witness API is likewise index-generic:
MixedIIDWith.iIndepFun_of_const, mixedIIDWith_const_iff_iIndepFun_and_map_eq, and
MixedIIDWith.of_iIndepFun_map_eq all take an arbitrary index type. Independence itself never
needed ℕ — Mathlib's ProbabilityTheory.iIndepFun is stated generically — the forward direction
enumerates finite subsets by some bijection with Fin s.card rather than by an order, and the
reverse direction takes the common law as a parameter instead of reconstructing it from a reference
coordinate.
The of_iIndepFun_identDistrib forms come in two shapes. The _at versions take a caller-supplied
reference coordinate i₀ and hold at an arbitrary index type; the unsuffixed ones are their
ℕ-indexed specializations at 0, kept because that is the ergonomic form for sequences and
because existing callers use it.
At a constant ν the conditional identity is free. The joint law of (p, block) is the
block law pushed forward by Prod.mk p, and the disintegration δ_p ⊗ p^{⊗m} is the product law
pushed forward by the same map, so the mixture identity already gives the joint one.
The two de Finetti predicates agree at a constant witness. In general only
mixedIIDWith_of_conditionallyIIDWith is available and the two need not agree; at a constant ν
the converse holds too, so they coincide.
A constant directing measure means plain i.i.d.: fun _ => p witnesses
ConditionallyIIDWith exactly when the coordinates are a.e. measurable and independent and
each has law p.
Independent, identically distributed coordinates are conditionally i.i.d., at an arbitrary
index type, with the common law μ.map (X i₀) as constant directing measure. Conditional rather
than merely mixture-level: at a constant witness the two identities coincide.
An i.i.d. sequence is conditionally i.i.d., with its common law as constant directing
measure. The ℕ-indexed specialization at the reference coordinate 0.
An i.i.d. family is conditionally i.i.d. (existential directing-measure form), at an
arbitrary index type, with i₀ the caller-supplied reference coordinate. The ℕ specialization
follows.
An i.i.d. sequence is conditionally i.i.d. (existential form), the ℕ-indexed
specialization at the reference coordinate 0.