Complex compatibility-degree conjecture for one dichotomic and one (k+1)(k+1)-outcome measurement

Let kNk\in\mathbb N and d2d\geq 2. The minimum compatibility degree sC(d,2,(2,k+1))s_{\mathbb C}(d,2,(2,k+1)) concerns one dichotomic measurement and one measurement with k+1k+1 outcomes on a dd-dimensional complex quantum system. Complex compatibility-degree conjecture. The minimum compatibility degree is

sC(d,2,(2,k+1))=k1+k+12k.s_{\mathbb C}(d,2,(2,k+1))=\frac{k-1+\sqrt{k+1}}{2k}.

This would show that the dimension-two real optimum remains optimal in every dimension and over complex quantum mechanics; the paper reports numerical support for small kk, but the general claim remains open.

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Andreas Bluhm, Eric Evert, Igor Klep, Victor Magron and Ion Nechita, “Inclusion constants for free spectrahedra with applications to quantum incompatibility”, arXiv:2512.17706 (2025).

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