On quantum symmetries of graphs

Authors

  • O. Ostrovska National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute", Kyiv
  • V. Ostrovskyi Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8534-503X
  • L. Turowska Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3842/umzh.v78i5-6.9774

Keywords:

Quantum graph, Quantum automorphism, Nonlocal game

Abstract

UDC 519.17, 517.98, 519.8

Let $G$ be a simple finite graph and let $\mathcal U_G$ be the corresponding quantum graph. We study the game algebra $C(\mathrm{Qut}(\mathcal U_G))$ of the quantum automorphisms of $\mathcal U_G.$ It is shown that, for the complete graph $K_n,$ the algebra $C(\mathrm{Qut}(\mathcal U_{K_n}))$ is not commutative even for all $n\geq 3,$ unlike $C(\mathrm{Qut}(K_n))=C(S_n^+).$ Moreover, we prove that, for any graph $G$ with $|V(G)|\geq 3,$ the quantum graph $\mathcal U_G$ admits nonlocal symmetry, which means that there exists a perfect quantum no-signaling correlation for the quantum automorphism game for $\mathcal U_G,$ which is not local.

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Published

29.05.2026

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Research articles