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The complexity of entangled graph colouring via polymorphisms

Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) with operator assignments to the variables provide a well-structured setting to study the decision complexity of the entangled value of classes of nonlocal games. Due to the CSP dichotomy theorem, the complexity of constraint satisfaction problems with classical assignments can be fully understood by studying the symmetries of the CSP, in terms of the polymorphisms of the underlying relational structure. In this work, we show that the polymorphism-based reductions between CSPs can be generalised to gap-preserving reductions between entangled CSPs based on an entangled analogue of the polymorphisms. This reduction allows us to show undecidability of entangled graph colouring with more than three colours, a problem that has proved resistant to prior hardness reductions based on commutativity gadgets.
Author: Culf, Eric
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7220381235
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