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Strategic Non-Shareability of Quantum Correlations

Quantum Physics 2026-05-26 v1

Abstract

Correlations distributed by a mediator are usually valued for the coordination they enable between authorized agents, but in adversarial settings a more decisive property is whether the same coordination can be inherited by an outside colluder without disturbing the authorized marginal. Classical shared randomness is freely copyable, so a hidden seed coordinating two agents can be duplicated for a third; entanglement is constrained by monogamy, which can forbid such lossless extensions in strongly nonlocal regimes. We turn this asymmetry into an operational resource for private-information games. For a fixed authorized behavior P12P_{12}, we define its \emph{collusive shadow} as the set of relabelled behaviors a colluder can reproduce in any admissible tripartite extension preserving P12P_{12}, and we identify \emph{strategic non-shareability} with the distance from this shadow. We prove that, on finite alphabets, the game-optimized anti-collusion capacity equals the total-variation distance to the shadow; a fixed game provides a task-specific separating witness, while optimization over relabelled games recovers the full distance. In the CHSH score slice, Toner--Verstraete monogamy yields the exact certified frontier, so the Bell local bound S12=2S_{12}=2 is the sharp onset of positive certified anti-collusion power, saturating at 1/(22)1/(2\sqrt{2}) for the maximally entangled CHSH strategy. Classical hidden-variable mediators have zero capacity in this slice. We complement these results with two operational tools: a Hoeffding-based finite-data certification protocol that turns observed Bell scores into confidence-bounded anti-collusion certificates, and a level-2 NPA semidefinite relaxation that extends certified upper envelopes to tilted Bell inequalities. These results recast entanglement monogamy as a measurable shareability deficit for quantum-mediated strategic networks.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2605.25516,
  title  = {Strategic Non-Shareability of Quantum Correlations},
  author = {Fumin Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.25516},
  year   = {2026}
}
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