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Very ample line bundles, contextuality and quantum computation

Quantum Physics 2016-02-18 v2

Abstract

I relate contextuality to line bundles. Line bundles are important in algebraic geometry, they determine through their global sections rational maps to projective spaces. I explain how such maps, if they exist, relate rationally the input and output of measurement based computation (MBQC) and show geometrically that, indeed, contextuality is a necessary resource for the computational advantage in MBQC. I also leverage the definition of MBQC to category theory and present it as a "subfunctor" of the spectral presheaf. In general, the MBQC functor is pointless whereas the computation is trivial.

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@article{arxiv.1412.3127,
  title  = {Very ample line bundles, contextuality and quantum computation},
  author = {Raouf Dridi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.3127},
  year   = {2016}
}
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