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A parallel repetition theorem for all entangled games

Quantum Physics 2016-04-18 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

The behavior of games repeated in parallel, when played with quantumly entangled players, has received much attention in recent years. Quantum analogues of Raz's classical parallel repetition theorem have been proved for many special classes of games. However, for general entangled games no parallel repetition theorem was known. We prove that the entangled value of a two-player game GG repeated nn times in parallel is at most cGn1/4lognc_G n^{-1/4} \log n for a constant cGc_G depending on GG, provided that the entangled value of GG is less than 1. In particular, this gives the first proof that the entangled value of a parallel repeated game must converge to 0 for all games whose entangled value is less than 1. Central to our proof is a combination of both classical and quantum correlated sampling.

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@article{arxiv.1604.04340,
  title  = {A parallel repetition theorem for all entangled games},
  author = {Henry Yuen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.04340},
  year   = {2016}
}

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To appear in the 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP)

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