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Two-player entangled games are NP-hard

Quantum Physics 2020-11-24 v2 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We show that the maximum success probability of players sharing quantum entanglement in a two-player game with classical questions of logarithmic length and classical answers of constant length is NP-hard to approximate to within constant factors. As a corollary, the inclusion NEXPMIP\mathrm{NEXP}\subseteq\mathrm{MIP}^*, first shown in [IV12] with three provers, holds with two provers only. The proof is based on a simpler, improved analysis of the low-degree test Raz and Safra (STOC'97) against two entangled provers.

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@article{arxiv.1710.03062,
  title  = {Two-player entangled games are NP-hard},
  author = {Anand Natarajan and Thomas Vidick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.03062},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

The paper has been withdrawn due to an error in the proof of the main theorem, inherited from arXiv:1302.1242. For more details see http://users.cms.caltech.edu/~vidick/errata.pdf and arXiv:2009.12982

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