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.

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DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics)
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2025-01-01
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https://doi.org/10.4230/lipics.itcs.2025.76
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Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
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A Quantum Unique Games Conjecture

Hamoon Mousavi, Taro Spirig
DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics)
Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
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A Quantum Unique Games Conjecture

Hamoon Mousavi, Taro Spirig
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Abstract

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.

DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics)
Department of Mathematical Sciences (RU)
National Science Foundation, Villum Fonden, European Commission
Openalex Percentile: Top 82%
Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
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