Globe-hopping

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2020.0038zbMATH Open1472.82003arXiv2001.06442OpenAlexW3000157041WikidataQ98649516 ScholiaQ98649516MaRDI QIDQ5160980FDOQ5160980

Authors: Olga Goulko, Adrian Kent, Dmitry Chistikov, Mike Paterson 

Publication date: 29 October 2021

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider versions of the grasshopper problem (Goulko and Kent, 2017) on the circle and the sphere, which are relevant to Bell inequalities. For a circle of circumference $2pi$, we show that for unconstrained lawns of any length and arbitrary jump lengths, the supremum of the probability for the grasshopper's jump to stay on the lawn is one. For antipodal lawns, which by definition contain precisely one of each pair of opposite points and have length $pi$, we show this is true except when the jump length $phi$ is of the form $pifracpq$ with $p,q$ coprime and $p$ odd. For these jump lengths we show the optimal probability is $1-1/q$ and construct optimal lawns. For a pair of antipodal lawns, we show that the optimal probability of jumping from one onto the other is $1-1/q$ for $p,q$ coprime, $p$ odd and $q$ even, and one in all other cases. For an antipodal lawn on the sphere, it is known (Kent and Pital'ua-Garc'ia, 2014) that if $phi=pi/q$, where $qinmathbbN$, then the optimal retention probability of $1-1/q$ for the grasshopper's jump is provided by a hemispherical lawn. We show that in all other cases where $0<phi<pi/2$, hemispherical lawns are not optimal, disproving the hemispherical colouring maximality hypotheses (Kent and Pital'ua-Garc'ia, 2014). We discuss the implications for Bell experiments and related cryptographic tests.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06442

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zbMATH Keywords

geometrycombinatoricsBell inequalitiesquantum physicsgeometric combinatoricsgrasshopper problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

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