A Quantum Unique Games Conjecture
After the NP-hardness of computational problems such as 3SAT and MaxCut was established, a natural next step was to explore whether these problems remain hard to approximate. While the quantum nonlocal games extensions of some of these problems are known to be hard - indeed undecidable - their inapproximability remains largely unresolved. In this work, we introduce definitions for the quantum extensions of Label-Cover and Unique-Label-Cover. We show that these problems play a similarly crucial role in studying the inapproximability of quantum constraint satisfaction problems as they do in the classical setting.
Authors
- Hamoon Mousavi
- Taro Spirig
Institutions
- Department of Mathematical Sciences (RU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics)
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4230/lipics.itcs.2025.76
- Primary Topic
- Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Villum Fonden
- European Commission