Positive–PPT composition decomposability conjecture

A linear map is positive if it maps positive semidefinite operators to positive semidefinite operators, and it is PPT if it is completely positive and has a PPT Choi matrix. Let L1\mathcal{L}_1 be a positive linear map and let L2\mathcal{L}_2 be a PPT linear map.

Positive–PPT composition conjecture. The composition

L1L2\mathcal{L}_1\circ\mathcal{L}_2

is decomposable. This is presented as an equivalent formulation of the PPT squared conjecture; since the latter is resolved only for d=2d=2 and d=3d=3, this formulation remains open in general.

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Primary source

Sang-Jun Park, “k-Positivity and high-dimensional bound entanglement under symplectic group symmetries”, arXiv:2602.09860 (2026).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2021–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2108.01588.

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