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arxiv: 2410.09900 · v3 · submitted 2024-10-13 · 🪐 quant-ph · cs.IT· math.IT

Bounds on Multipartite Nonlocality via Reduction to Biased Nonlocality

Hafiza Rumlah Amer , Jibran Rashid This is my paper

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keywords genuine multipartite nonlocalitythreshold gamesLOCCG modelbiased bipartite nonlocalitynonlocal game reductionquantum correlationsinformation principles
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Optimal bounds on genuine multipartite nonlocality for threshold games are obtained by reducing them to biased bipartite games.

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This paper establishes optimal bounds on genuine multipartite nonlocality for certain threshold games by developing a reduction to biased bipartite nonlocal games within the LOCCG framework. The reduction maps the multipartite problem onto a bipartite one with bias, allowing use of known bipartite techniques. A reader would care because this advances understanding of nonlocal quantum correlations involving more than two parties. If successful, it offers a systematic way to handle multipartite cases that are otherwise hard to analyze directly.

Core claim

By developing a reduction between multipartite nonlocal games and biased bipartite nonlocal games, optimal bounds on genuine multipartite nonlocality are provided for classes of threshold games in the LOCCG model. Generalizing this reduction could bridge multipartite and bipartite information principles.

What carries the argument

Reduction of multipartite nonlocal games to biased bipartite nonlocal games under the LOCCG model.

If this is right

  • The bounds are optimal for the threshold game classes considered.
  • The method applies specifically to the LOCCG model of local operations with grouping.
  • The approach may extend to larger classes of games, linking multipartite to bipartite principles.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The reduction technique could be applied to other multipartite game types to derive similar bounds.
  • It suggests that bipartite nonlocality results might inform multipartite ones through appropriate biasing.
  • Experimental tests of nonlocality could be simplified by focusing on bipartite equivalents.

Load-bearing premise

That the developed reduction accurately captures the genuine multipartite nonlocality and is sufficient to derive the optimal bounds for the threshold games.

What would settle it

A quantum strategy for a threshold game that achieves higher nonlocality than the bound predicted by the reduction to the biased bipartite game.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2410.09900 by Hafiza Rumlah Amer, Jibran Rashid.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1. Three player Bell scenario where players 1 and 2 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2. Visual summary of the games in our results. Quan [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3. The LOCCG model is shown on the left and the reduced biased game is on the right. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. The winning probability for Protocol 1 with the num [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. Separation between the quantum and classical [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_5.png] view at source ↗
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Multipartite information principles are needed to understand nonlocal quantum correlations. Towards that end, we provide optimal bounds on genuine multipartite nonlocality for classes of THRESHOLD games using the LOCCG (Local Operations with Grouping) model. Our proof develops a reduction between multipartite nonlocal and biased bipartite nonlocal games. Generalizing this reduction to a larger class of games may build a bridge from multipartite to bipartite principles.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper claims to derive optimal bounds on genuine multipartite nonlocality for classes of threshold games in the LOCCG model by developing a reduction that maps multipartite nonlocal strategies to biased bipartite nonlocal games, thereby connecting multipartite and bipartite information principles.

Significance. If the reduction is equivalence-preserving and tight, the result would supply a systematic method for obtaining optimal multipartite bounds from bipartite ones, strengthening the link between multipartite nonlocality and established bipartite tools; the manuscript does not report machine-checked proofs or reproducible code.

major comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The optimality claim in the abstract rests on the reduction being tight (i.e., both an upper bound on the multipartite value and a matching lower bound). The provided text does not exhibit an explicit equality case, matching quantum strategy, or verification that the LOCCG grouping operations preserve the threshold-game value exactly rather than relaxing it; this is load-bearing for the central result.

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We thank the referee for the careful reading and the constructive comment on the tightness of the reduction. We address the point below and will incorporate clarifications to strengthen the presentation of the optimality claim.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] The optimality claim in the abstract rests on the reduction being tight (i.e., both an upper bound on the multipartite value and a matching lower bound). The provided text does not exhibit an explicit equality case, matching quantum strategy, or verification that the LOCCG grouping operations preserve the threshold-game value exactly rather than relaxing it; this is load-bearing for the central result.

    Authors: The reduction establishes both directions. The mapping from multipartite LOCCG strategies to biased bipartite nonlocal games yields an upper bound on the genuine multipartite nonlocality value for the threshold games. The matching lower bound is obtained by exhibiting explicit quantum strategies (product states across grouped parties with appropriate measurements) that saturate the bound derived from the bipartite case; these constructions appear in the proofs of the main theorems for the classes of threshold functions considered. The LOCCG grouping operations preserve the threshold value exactly because the threshold predicate depends only on the total number of 1-outcomes and is invariant under the partition into groups; the proof verifies that any strategy using grouping can be simulated without loss by an equivalent strategy in the reduced game. We will revise the abstract and add a short clarifying paragraph in Section 2 to explicitly reference the equality cases and the invariance property. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The abstract describes developing a reduction from multipartite nonlocal games to biased bipartite games to obtain optimal bounds on genuine multipartite nonlocality for threshold games under the LOCCG model. No equations, self-citations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or ansatzes are present in the provided text that would reduce the claimed bounds to inputs by construction. The central claim rests on an independently developed reduction whose validity is asserted as part of the proof, with no load-bearing self-referential steps visible. This is the normal case of a self-contained derivation.

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