What is Lossless Join Decomposition ?

We claim the above decomposition is lossless. How can we decide whether a decomposition is lossless?
* Let R be a relation schema.
* Let F be a set of functional dependencies on R.
* Let R1 and R2 form a decomposition of R.
* The decomposition is a lossless-join decomposition of R if at least one of the following functional dependencies are in F+ :
1.
2.
Why is this true? Simply put, it ensures that the attributes involved in the natural join ( tex2html_wrap_inline1634 ) are a candidate key for at least one of the two relations.
This ensures that we can never get the situation where spurious tuples are generated, as for any value on the join attributes there will be a unique tuple in one of the relations.