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Entangled games are hard to approximate

Kempe, Julia
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Kobayashi, Hirotada
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Matsumoto, Keiji
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2008
Proceedings of the 49th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science. FOCS 2008
49th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2018)

We establish the first hardness results for the problem of computing the value of one-round games played by a referee and a team of players who can share quantum entanglement. In particular, we show that it is NP-hard to approximate within an inverse polynomial the value of a one-round game with (i) quantum referee and two entangled players or (ii) classical referee and three entangled players. Previously it was not even known if computing the value exactly is NP-hard. We also describe a mathematical conjecture, which, if true, would imply hardness of approximation to within a constant. We start our proof by describing two ways to modify classical multi-player games to make them resistant to entangled players. We then show that a strategy for the modified game that uses entanglement can be "rounded" to one that does not. The results then follow from classical inapproximability bounds. Our work implies that, unless P = NP, the values of entangled-player games cannot be computed by semidefinite programs that are polynomial in the size of the referee's system, a method that has been successful for more restricted quantum games.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/FOCS.2008.8
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-57949095785

Author(s)
Kempe, Julia

Tel Aviv University

Kobayashi, Hirotada

Research Organization of Information and Systems National Institute of Informatics

Matsumoto, Keiji

Research Organization of Information and Systems National Institute of Informatics

Toner, Ben

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

Vidick, Thomas  orcid-logo

University of California, Berkeley

Date Issued

2008

Published in
Proceedings of the 49th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science. FOCS 2008
ISBN of the book

9780769534367

Article Number

4690978

Start page

447

End page

456

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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OTHER

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49th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2018)

FOCS 2018

United States

2008-10-25 - 2008-10-28

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November 25, 2025
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