Barker's tensor-product characterization of Choquet simplices

Let K1K_1 and K2K_2 be compact convex sets. Write K1K2K_1 \otimes_* K_2 and K1K2K_1 \otimes^* K_2 for their minimal and maximal tensor products of compact convex sets, respectively.

Barker's conjecture. K1K2=K1K2K_1 \otimes_* K_2 = K_1 \otimes^* K_2 if and only if one of K1K_1 and K2K_2 is a Choquet simplex.

This would replace the square in the Namioka–Phelps characterization with an arbitrary compact convex set that is not a Choquet simplex, and is stated as an open problem first formulated by G. P. Barker.

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Magdalena Musat and Mikael Rørdam, “Entanglement in C^*-algebras: tensor products of state spaces”, arXiv:2512.10410 (2026).

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