Undecidability conjecture for ALLOWS_QUANTUM

Let HH be a contextuality scenario and let C(H)C^*(H) denote its universal unital CC^*-algebra. The decision problem ALLOWS_QUANTUM\mathtt{ALLOWS\_QUANTUM} asks whether a given contextuality scenario admits a quantum realization. Undecidability conjecture. The decision problem ALLOWS_QUANTUM\mathtt{ALLOWS\_QUANTUM} is undecidable. The authors do not know any terminating algorithm that solves this problem; a positive solution to the associated residual finite-dimensionality problem would instead yield an algorithm, while the problem is related to Connes' embedding problem and other difficult questions in operator algebras.

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Antonio Acín, Tobias Fritz, Anthony Leverrier and Ana Belén Sainz, “A Combinatorial Approach to Nonlocality and Contextuality”, arXiv:1212.4084 (2015).

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