Solution

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The prior factors involving are for . A likelihood factor centered at depends on precisely when , equivalently . Those factors are
Only incident prior edges and likelihoods centered at neighboring sites are affected. In particular, the likelihood centered at does not depend on : its mean involves only the neighbors of . These are the local likelihood factors in a hidden spin field. The resulting conditional dependence can extend two lattice steps, beyond the nearest-neighbor prior interactions. For , both collections are empty.

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