TITLE: Sipser Pumping Lemma Clarification
QUESTION [7 upvotes]: In a Theory of Computation book I am using, the explanation of Pumping Lemma is not bad, but some parts of it are not clear to me.
Here is the Definition of Pumping Lemma:
If A is a regular language, then there is a number p (the pumping length) where, if s is any string in A of length at least p, then s may be divided into three pieces, s = xyz, satisfying the following conditions:

for each $i \ge 0$, $xy^iz\in A$,
$|y| > 0$ 
$|xy|\le p$

Now while explaining why the classic language $B=\{0^n1^n\mid n \ge 0\}$, is not a regular, Sipser gives the following explanations:
Assume the contrary is regular, assume $B$ is regular. Let $p$ be the pumping length given by the pumping lemma. Choose $s$ to be the string $0^p1^p$. Because $s\in B$ and $s$ has length more than $p$, the pumping lemma guarantees that $s$ can be split into three pieces, $s=xyz$, where for any $i\ge 0$ the string $xy^iz\in B$.
However, these cases make this impossible (causing a contradiction):
Case 1 . The string $y$ consists only of $0$s. In this case the string $xyyz$ has more $0$s than $1$s and so it is not a member of $B$, violating condition 1 of the pumping lemma. 
Question: I don't understand why assuming $y$ consists of only $0$s, automatically means that the tring $xyyz$ may have more $0$s than $1$s. The string $x$ may be comprised of any number of $0$s and the string $y$ may be comprised of any number of $1$s? My question is, how come the string $xyyz$ results in there being more $0$s than $1$s?
Case 2. The string $y$ consists of both $0$s and $1$s. In this case the string $xyyz$ may have the same number of $0$s and $1$s, but they will be out of order with some $1$s before $0$s. Hence it is not a member of $B$.
Question: Again, with this explanation, I don't understand how they concluded that the string $xyyz$ may have both $0$s and $1$s but out of order, causing a contradiction.
I appreciate any clarification.
Many thanks in advance!

REPLY [3 votes]: There seems to be something wrong (or superfluous) with Sipser's treatment (which surprises me).  The second case is actually never needed.  I'll try to prove an example that can easily be taken to the general case.

WARNING!!!  What follows is just a very special case of demonstrating that the language $L = \{ \mathtt{0}^n \mathtt{1}^n : n \geq 0 \}$ is not regular.  That special case is thinking that the pumping length of the language is $5$.  To prove that $L$ is not regular you would have to alter the sequel to work for any arbitrary natural number $p$.

Suppose that $p = 5$, and consider the string $$w = \mathtt{0}^p \mathtt{1}^p = \mathtt{0}^5 \mathtt{1}^5 = \mathtt{0000011111}.$$
We want to write $w = x y z$ so as to satisfy the following conditions:

$| x y | \leq p = 5$;
$| y | > 0$

Since the string $xy$ must make up an initial part of $w$, and cannot be longer than $5$ characters long, it must come from the first $5$ characters of $w$: these are $\mathtt{0 0 0 0 0}$.  In particular $y$ must consist only of $\mathtt{0}$s.  Furthermore, since $y$ cannot be the empty string, it must consist of at least one $\mathtt{0}$.
One possible split of this string is $$\overbrace{\mathtt{00}}^{x}\; \overbrace{\mathtt{00}}^y \; \overbrace{\mathtt{011111}}^{z}.$$
Now when we "pump" the $y$ we get strings such as

$xy^0z = \mathtt{00} \; \mathtt{011111}$;
$xy^1z = \mathtt{00} \; \mathtt{00} \; \mathtt{011111}$;
$xy^2z = \mathtt{00} \; \mathtt{00} \; \mathtt{00} \; \mathtt{011111}$;
etc.

In general, the number of $\mathtt{0}$s in $x y^i z$ will be $5 + (i-1) |y|$, whereas the number of $\mathtt{1}$s stays constant at $5$.