The exchange condition for a Coxeter system: if right multiplying a reduced word $\omega$ by $s_i$ decreases length, there is some index $i$ such that erasing the $i$-th letter from $\omega$ produces a word with product $\omega \cdot s$.
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The deletion condition: if a word is non-reduced, two letters can be erased without changing its product. Formally, if $\mathtt{word.length} > \ell(\mathtt{wordProd}\,\mathtt{word})$ then there exist $i < j$ such that erasing positions $i$ and $j$ leaves the product unchanged.
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Corollary of the exchange condition used in subexpression arguments: if both $\ell(sw) = \ell(w) + 1$ and $\ell(wt) = \ell(w) + 1$ hold, then either $\ell(swt) = \ell(w) + 2$ or $swt = w$.
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Given a sequence $f : \mathbb{N} \to \mathbb{N}$ that starts at $0$ and at each step either increases or decreases by $1$, if $f(n) < n$ then there is a first index $j < n$ where $f$ decreases (i.e. $f(j+1) + 1 = f(j)$ and $f$ is strictly increasing on $[0, j]$).
The exchange condition implies the deletion condition: any non-reduced word admits a pair of letters whose removal preserves its product.
The exchange condition implies the exchange corollary: given an element $w$ with $\ell(sw) = \ell(wt) = \ell(w) + 1$, either $\ell(swt) = \ell(w) + 2$ or $swt = w$.