Operator paving over a maximal abelian subalgebra 
partitions the
identity into mutually orthogonal projections 
to make the pinching
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close to a diagonal element 
. Norm paving bounds 
directly. Strong-operator paving, for self-adjoint 
, requires that for every finite 
and 
a projection 
can be chosen with 
for 
and 
such that
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The partition count is chosen before 
and 
.
