April 30, 2024 to May 3, 2024
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
America/Toronto timezone

Binary constraint systems and MIP*

May 2, 2024, 1:00 p.m.
45m
PI/1-100 - Theatre (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

PI/1-100 - Theatre

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

190

Speaker

William Slofstra (University of Waterloo)

Description

Binary constraint system games are a generalization of the Mermin-Peres magic square game introduced by Cleve and Mittal. Thanks to the recent MIP=RE theorem of Ji, Natarajan, Vidick, Wright, and Yuen, BCS games can be used to construct a proof system for any language in MIP, the class of languages with a multiprover interactive proof system where the provers can share entanglement. This means that we can apply logical reductions for binary constraint systems to MIP protocols, and also raises the question: how complicated do our constraint systems have to be to describe all of MIP? In this talk, I'll give a general overview of this subject, including an application of logical reductions to showing that all languages in MIP have a perfect zero knowledge proof system (joint work with Kieran Mastel), and one obstacle to expressing all of MIP with linear constraints (joint work with Connor Paddock).

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