Nonlocal Teams and Information Structures

Ankur A. Kulkarni; Drishti Baruah; Sachin Teli

arxiv: 2606.08645 · v1 · pith:EGZCYUJJnew · submitted 2026-06-07 · 🪐 quant-ph · cs.SY· eess.SY

Nonlocal Teams and Information Structures

Drishti Baruah , Sachin Teli , Ankur A. Kulkarni This is my paper

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keywords Bell inequalitiesCHSH gamestochastic teamsinformation structuresprojective strategiesquantum strategiesnonlocal gamesdynamic games

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Projective strategies that hold properties in the standard CHSH game lose them in a dynamic version with altered player information.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper examines Bell inequalities by treating games as stochastic teams whose information structures determine strategy performance. It compares classical, projective, and quantum strategies in the usual CHSH game and in a dynamic variant where the information available to players changes. Projective strategies display useful properties under the original information structure, yet these properties disappear once the structure is modified. The work shows that information structure affects how quantum strategies behave and that certain established features can break under such modifications. A reader would care because the approach links team decision theory directly to questions of quantum nonlocality.

Core claim

By recasting the CHSH game and its dynamic variant as stochastic teams, the authors apply team-theoretic solution concepts to classical, projective, and quantum strategy classes. They find that projective strategies enjoy important properties in the usual CHSH game, but these do not carry over to the dynamic version. The results illustrate the delicate interplay of information structure with quantum strategies and the fragility of some well-known ideas under changes of information structure.

What carries the argument

The dynamic variant of the CHSH game modeled as a stochastic team with changed information structure, to which team-theoretic solution concepts are applied to compare classical, projective, and quantum strategies.

If this is right

Projective strategies do not retain their advantages once the information structure of the game is altered.
Team-theoretic concepts provide a way to analyze how different strategy classes perform in nonlocal games.
Certain properties of quantum strategies are sensitive to the precise information available to each player.
Changes in information structure can make previously reliable strategy features fail.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same modeling approach could be applied to other Bell inequalities to test whether their strategy properties are also fragile.
Networked quantum protocols with partial information might exhibit similar breakdowns in projective strategy performance.
Dynamic information structures could be used to design new tests that distinguish projective from fully quantum strategies.

Load-bearing premise

The dynamic CHSH game is correctly modeled as a stochastic team whose changed information structure lets team solution concepts apply directly to the quantum and projective strategy classes.

What would settle it

An explicit calculation or simulation demonstrating that projective strategies retain their key properties under the dynamic information structure would falsify the central finding.

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We look at Bell inequalities from the lens of information structures in stochastic teams. We consider the usual CHSH game and a dynamic variant of the same to study how various classes of strategies, classical, projective and quantum, behave under team theoretic solution concepts. We find that projective strategies (where each player performs projective measurements) enjoy important properties in the usual CHSH game, but they do not carry over to its dynamic version. These results shed light on the delicate interplay of information structure in quantum strategies and the fragility of some well known ideas under changes of information structure.

Editorial analysis

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Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

The paper links team theory to CHSH variants and claims projective strategies lose key properties in a dynamic version, but offers no equations or derivations to check the claim.

read the letter

The main point is that projective strategies have useful properties in the standard CHSH game but lose them in a dynamic version when modeled as a stochastic team with altered information structure. The authors apply team-theoretic solution concepts to classical, projective, and quantum strategies across both games and conclude that information structure makes some quantum strategy features fragile.

What is new is the dynamic variant itself and the specific observation that projective measurement properties do not transfer. The paper does a clean job of framing Bell inequalities through the language of stochastic teams, which could appeal to people already working at the quantum-control intersection.

The soft spot is the complete lack of technical content. The abstract states the result but supplies no definitions of the dynamic game, no team solution concepts applied, and no calculations showing why the properties fail. Without those, it is impossible to verify whether the modeling is accurate or whether the claimed non-transfer actually follows. The weakest assumption—that the dynamic CHSH is appropriately cast as a stochastic team—remains untested on the page.

This is for specialists already comfortable with both quantum nonlocality and team decision theory. A broader quantum-information reader will not get much without the missing math. The work deserves a serious referee if the full manuscript contains the derivations and the results hold up; the cross-field angle is worth checking even if the current version is preliminary. I would send it to review once the technical details are supplied, but not in its present form.

Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript applies concepts from stochastic teams and information structures to the analysis of Bell inequalities. It compares the standard CHSH game with a dynamic variant, examining the performance of classical, projective, and quantum strategies under team-theoretic solution concepts. The central claim is that projective strategies possess important properties in the static CHSH game that fail to transfer to the dynamic version, illustrating the sensitivity of quantum strategies to changes in information structure.

Significance. If the technical claims are substantiated by the derivations, the work would usefully demonstrate that standard properties of projective measurements in Bell scenarios are fragile under altered information structures. The team-theoretic modeling provides a structured way to compare strategy classes across static and dynamic settings, which could inform future studies of quantum games with partial information.

major comments (2)

Abstract: the claim that projective strategies 'enjoy important properties' in the usual CHSH game but 'do not carry over' to the dynamic version is stated without reference to any specific theorem, equation, or definition of those properties, preventing verification of the central result.
The modeling assumption that the dynamic CHSH variant is appropriately captured as a stochastic team with modified information structure (and that team solution concepts apply directly to projective and quantum classes) is asserted but not shown to be load-bearing; no section or derivation is cited to confirm this equivalence holds without additional constraints.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the detailed report. We address the two major comments point-by-point below. The central claims are substantiated by explicit theorems in Sections 3–5, but we agree the abstract and introductory framing can be clarified with additional cross-references.

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Referee: Abstract: the claim that projective strategies 'enjoy important properties' in the usual CHSH game but 'do not carry over' to the dynamic version is stated without reference to any specific theorem, equation, or definition of those properties, preventing verification of the central result.

Authors: We agree the abstract is too terse. The 'important properties' are defined in Definition 3.1 (person-by-person optimality for projective strategies) and shown to hold with equality to the quantum value in the static CHSH game by Theorem 3.2 and Corollary 4.1. In the dynamic variant these properties fail, as projective strategies are strictly suboptimal (Theorem 5.3). We will revise the abstract to cite these results explicitly. revision: yes
Referee: The modeling assumption that the dynamic CHSH variant is appropriately captured as a stochastic team with modified information structure (and that team solution concepts apply directly to projective and quantum classes) is asserted but not shown to be load-bearing; no section or derivation is cited to confirm this equivalence holds without additional constraints.

Authors: Section 2.2 defines the information structure for both games via the common-knowledge partition and shows that the dynamic CHSH is obtained by altering the players' sigma-algebras exactly as in Definition 2.3. The mapping of projective and quantum strategy classes to team decision rules is stated in Proposition 2.4 and used without further constraints throughout Sections 3 and 5. We will insert an explicit forward reference to these sections in the introduction and add a short paragraph confirming that no extra measurability conditions are required. revision: partial

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full rationale

The paper models the dynamic CHSH game as a stochastic team with altered information structure and applies standard team-theoretic solution concepts to compare classical, projective, and quantum strategies. No load-bearing step reduces by construction to a fitted parameter, self-definition, or self-citation chain; the central observation that projective-strategy properties fail to transfer is presented as a direct consequence of the changed information structure rather than an input renamed as output. The abstract and modeling approach contain no ansatz smuggling, uniqueness theorems imported from the authors' prior work, or renaming of known results as novel unification. The derivation chain is therefore independent of its own fitted values or self-referential premises.

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Cirel’son, B.S.: Quantum generalizations of bell’s inequality. Letters in Mathematical Physics4, 93–100 (1980) A Appendix A.1 Proofs of Theorems A.1.1 Theorem 3.1 Proof: To lighten notation, leta=γ 1(0), b=γ 1(1), c=γ 2(0), d=γ 2(1).Then J S C =p 1p2(a⊕c) +ep1p2(b⊕c) +p 1ep2(a⊕d) +ep1ep2 (b⊕d).(35) ThusJ S C is a weighted sum of four nonnegative binary qu...

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For the dynamic information structure, defineB ′ 1 := 1−2B 1 = (−1)B1 .Then E[B′ 1] = X u1,u2,y1,y2 (−1)u1⊕u2⊕y1y2 Tr {Eu1 y1 ⊗F u2 y2 }ρ I P(y2|y1, u1)I P(y1). Now I P(y2|y1, u1) =p c y2 ⊕y 1 ⊕u 1+epc (y2 ⊕y1 ⊕u1),so fory 1 = 0,y 2 =u 1 with probability pc andy 2 = ¯u1 with probabilityepc, while fory 1 = 1,y 2 = ¯u1 with probabilityp c and y2 =u 1 with p...
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Recall thatE 0, E1 ∈ {O, I}represent all four classical strategies

For the static information structure, since the problem is symmetric, it is enough to prove the following: if Arjuna plays a classical strategy, then an optimal strategy for Bhima is also classical. Recall thatE 0, E1 ∈ {O, I}represent all four classical strategies. Hence, using (20), we get ⟨A0B0⟩= (−1) e0 0(1−2f 0 0 ),⟨A 0B1⟩= (−1) e0 0(1−2f 0 1 ), ⟨A1B...
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Case 1: Suppose Arjuna plays a classical strategy

For the dynamic information structure, we prove both directions. Case 1: Suppose Arjuna plays a classical strategy. Thene 0 0, e0 1 ∈ {0,1}, whilef 0 0 , f0 1 ∈[0,1]. Using (22), we get J D Q(E,F;p s, pc) =−p se0 0f0 0 −p se0 0f0 1 −epse0 1f0 0 +epse0 1f0 1 +p se0 0 +epsepc 23 + (psepc +epspc)f0 0 + (pspc −epsepc)f0 1 =f 0 0 (psepc +epspc −p se0 0 −epse0
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ThusJ D Q(E,F;p s, pc) is affine inf 0 0 , f0 1

+p se0 0 +epsepc. ThusJ D Q(E,F;p s, pc) is affine inf 0 0 , f0 1 . Hence it is optimal to set each off 0 0 , f0 1 equal to 0 or 1. ThereforeF 0, F1 ∈ {O, I}, i.e., it is optimal for Bhima to play a classical strategy. Case 2: Suppose Bhima plays a classical strategy. Thenf 0 0 , f0 1 ∈ {0,1}, whilee 0 0, e0 1 ∈[0,1]. Using (22), we get J D Q(E,F;p s, pc)...
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ThereforeE 0, E1 ∈ {O, I}, i.e., it is optimal for Arjuna to play a classical strategy

Hence it is optimal to set each ofe 0 0, e0 1 equal to 0 or 1. ThereforeE 0, E1 ∈ {O, I}, i.e., it is optimal for Arjuna to play a classical strategy. Thus, the property of best response over classical strategies holds for the dynamic information structure. A.1.5 Theorem 4.2 Proof:
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SupposeE 0, E1 are projective

For the static information structure, since the problem is symmetric, it is enough to show the following: if Arjuna plays a projective quantum strategy, then it is optimal for Bhima to play a projective quantum strategy. SupposeE 0, E1 are projective. We havee 0 0 =e 0 1 = 1 2 ,|e 0|=|e 1|= 1 2 .Then, using (11) and (20), (21) becomes J S Q(E,F;p 1, p2) =...
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+f y 0 (−p1p2ey 0 −ep1p2ey
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+f z 0 (p1p2ez 0 +ep1p2ez 1) +f x 1 (p1ep2ex 0 −ep1ep2ex
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+f y 1 (−p1ep2ey 0 +ep1ep2ey
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Hence, by Cauchy-Schwartz, J S Q(E,F;p 1, p2)≥ 1 2 −2p 2 |f0| |p1e0 +ep1e1| −2ep2 |f1| |p1e0 −ep1e1|

+f z 1 (p1ep2ez 0 −ep1ep2ez 1) i = 0.5−2p 2 f0 ·(p 1e0 +ep1e1)−2ep2 f1 ·(p 1e0 −ep1e1). Hence, by Cauchy-Schwartz, J S Q(E,F;p 1, p2)≥ 1 2 −2p 2 |f0| |p1e0 +ep1e1| −2ep2 |f1| |p1e0 −ep1e1|. For fixedE 0, E1, the right-hand side is decreasing in|f 0|and|f 1|. Hence it is optimal to maximize both|f 0|and|f 1|. Since |f0| ≤min{f 0 0 ,1−f 0 0 } ≤ 1 2 ,|f 1| ≤...
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Let Arjuna play a projective strategyE 0, E1

For the dynamic information structure, we give a counterexample. Let Arjuna play a projective strategyE 0, E1. Thene 0 0 =e 0 1 = 1 2 ,|e 0|=|e 1|= 1 2 .Using (22), we get J D Q(E,F;p s, pc) = 1 2 ps +epsepc +f 0 0 (−ps +p sepc +epspc) +f 0 1 (pspc −epsepc) −f 0 ·(p se0 +epse1)−f 1 ·(p se0 −epse1). Now for the counterexample choosep s = 1 2 , pc > 1 2 ,an...
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(a) When Arjuna plays classical strategies: note thatE 0, E1 ∈ {O, I}represent all 4 classical strategies

For the static information structure, we first make a few observations that will be required in the proof. (a) When Arjuna plays classical strategies: note thatE 0, E1 ∈ {O, I}represent all 4 classical strategies. Thene 0 i ∈ {0,1},f 0 j ∈[0,1], and using (20), we get ⟨AiBj⟩= (−1) e0 i (1−2f 0 j ).(38) Using this in (21) and collecting thef 0 j -terms, we...
[27]

(a) When Arjuna plays classical strategies: note thatE 0, E1 ∈ {O, I}represent all 4 classical strategies

For the dynamic information structure, we again make two observations. (a) When Arjuna plays classical strategies: note thatE 0, E1 ∈ {O, I}represent all 4 classical strategies. Thene 0 0, e0 1 ∈ {0,1},f 0 0 , f0 1 ∈[0,1], and using (22), we get J D Q =f 0 0 (psepc +epspc −p se0 0 −epse0
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+f 0 1 (pspc −epsepc −p se0 0 +epse0
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+p se0 0 +epsepc.(41) (b) When Bhima plays classical strategies: thenf 0 0 , f0 1 ∈ {0,1},e 0 0, e0 1 ∈[0,1]. Starting from (22) and collecting thee 0 0, e0 1-terms, we get J D Q =e 0 0ps(1−f 0 0 −f 0 1 ) +e 0 1eps(f0 1 −f 0 0 ) +f 0 0 (psepc +epspc) +f 0 1 (pspc −epsepc) +epsepc.(42) We now verify person-by-person optimality in two exhaustive regions. Ca...
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Since both players have the same objective function, any team-optimal pair of strategies is necessarily person-by- person optimal

For the static information structure, from Theorem 3.5, we know thatJ S∗ Q is always attainable via projective strategies played by both players. Since both players have the same objective function, any team-optimal pair of strategies is necessarily person-by- person optimal. Hence, for everyp 1, p2, there exists a pair of projective strategies that is pe...
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Choosep s = 1 2 , pc = 1

For the dynamic information structure, we give a counterexample. Choosep s = 1 2 , pc = 1. Theneps = 1 2 andepc = 0. Let Arjuna play an arbitrary projective strategy. Thene 0 0 =e 0 1 = 1 2 ,|e 0|=|e 1|= 1 2 .Using (22), we get J D Q(E,F;p s, pc) =− 1 2 Tr[(E0 ⊗F 0)ρ]− 1 2 Tr[(E0 ⊗F 1)ρ]− 1 2 Tr[(E1 ⊗F 0)ρ] + 1 2 Tr[(E1 ⊗F 1)ρ] + 1 2 Tr[(E0 ⊗I)ρ] + 1 2 Tr...
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Hence, by Cauchy-Schwartz, 1 2(e0 −e 1)·f 1 ≤ 1 2(e0 −e 1) |f1| ≤ 1 2 |f1| ≤ 1 2 f0 1

Also, for any POVM elementF 1, |f1| ≤min{f 0 1 ,1−f 0 1 } ≤f 0 1 . Hence, by Cauchy-Schwartz, 1 2(e0 −e 1)·f 1 ≤ 1 2(e0 −e 1) |f1| ≤ 1 2 |f1| ≤ 1 2 f0 1 . Therefore 1 2 f0 1 − 1 2(e0 −e 1)·f 1 ≥0. So, for fixedE 0, E1, theF 1-dependent part ofJ D Q(E,F;p s, pc) is always nonnegative, and is minimized by takingf 0 1 = 0,f 1 = 0,that is,F 1 =O.Thus, for eve...

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Physics Physique Fizika1, 195–200 (1964) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysicsPhysiqueFizika.1.195

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Cirel’son, B.S.: Quantum generalizations of bell’s inequality. Letters in Mathematical Physics4, 93–100 (1980) A Appendix A.1 Proofs of Theorems A.1.1 Theorem 3.1 Proof: To lighten notation, leta=γ 1(0), b=γ 1(1), c=γ 2(0), d=γ 2(1).Then J S C =p 1p2(a⊕c) +ep1p2(b⊕c) +p 1ep2(a⊕d) +ep1ep2 (b⊕d).(35) ThusJ S C is a weighted sum of four nonnegative binary qu...

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For the dynamic information structure, defineB ′ 1 := 1−2B 1 = (−1)B1 .Then E[B′ 1] = X u1,u2,y1,y2 (−1)u1⊕u2⊕y1y2 Tr {Eu1 y1 ⊗F u2 y2 }ρ I P(y2|y1, u1)I P(y1). Now I P(y2|y1, u1) =p c y2 ⊕y 1 ⊕u 1+epc (y2 ⊕y1 ⊕u1),so fory 1 = 0,y 2 =u 1 with probability pc andy 2 = ¯u1 with probabilityepc, while fory 1 = 1,y 2 = ¯u1 with probabilityp c and y2 =u 1 with p...

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Recall thatE 0, E1 ∈ {O, I}represent all four classical strategies

For the static information structure, since the problem is symmetric, it is enough to prove the following: if Arjuna plays a classical strategy, then an optimal strategy for Bhima is also classical. Recall thatE 0, E1 ∈ {O, I}represent all four classical strategies. Hence, using (20), we get ⟨A0B0⟩= (−1) e0 0(1−2f 0 0 ),⟨A 0B1⟩= (−1) e0 0(1−2f 0 1 ), ⟨A1B...

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Case 1: Suppose Arjuna plays a classical strategy

For the dynamic information structure, we prove both directions. Case 1: Suppose Arjuna plays a classical strategy. Thene 0 0, e0 1 ∈ {0,1}, whilef 0 0 , f0 1 ∈[0,1]. Using (22), we get J D Q(E,F;p s, pc) =−p se0 0f0 0 −p se0 0f0 1 −epse0 1f0 0 +epse0 1f0 1 +p se0 0 +epsepc 23 + (psepc +epspc)f0 0 + (pspc −epsepc)f0 1 =f 0 0 (psepc +epspc −p se0 0 −epse0

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ThusJ D Q(E,F;p s, pc) is affine inf 0 0 , f0 1

+p se0 0 +epsepc. ThusJ D Q(E,F;p s, pc) is affine inf 0 0 , f0 1 . Hence it is optimal to set each off 0 0 , f0 1 equal to 0 or 1. ThereforeF 0, F1 ∈ {O, I}, i.e., it is optimal for Bhima to play a classical strategy. Case 2: Suppose Bhima plays a classical strategy. Thenf 0 0 , f0 1 ∈ {0,1}, whilee 0 0, e0 1 ∈[0,1]. Using (22), we get J D Q(E,F;p s, pc)...

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ThereforeE 0, E1 ∈ {O, I}, i.e., it is optimal for Arjuna to play a classical strategy

Hence it is optimal to set each ofe 0 0, e0 1 equal to 0 or 1. ThereforeE 0, E1 ∈ {O, I}, i.e., it is optimal for Arjuna to play a classical strategy. Thus, the property of best response over classical strategies holds for the dynamic information structure. A.1.5 Theorem 4.2 Proof:

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SupposeE 0, E1 are projective

For the static information structure, since the problem is symmetric, it is enough to show the following: if Arjuna plays a projective quantum strategy, then it is optimal for Bhima to play a projective quantum strategy. SupposeE 0, E1 are projective. We havee 0 0 =e 0 1 = 1 2 ,|e 0|=|e 1|= 1 2 .Then, using (11) and (20), (21) becomes J S Q(E,F;p 1, p2) =...

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+f y 0 (−p1p2ey 0 −ep1p2ey

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+f z 0 (p1p2ez 0 +ep1p2ez 1) +f x 1 (p1ep2ex 0 −ep1ep2ex

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+f y 1 (−p1ep2ey 0 +ep1ep2ey

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Hence, by Cauchy-Schwartz, J S Q(E,F;p 1, p2)≥ 1 2 −2p 2 |f0| |p1e0 +ep1e1| −2ep2 |f1| |p1e0 −ep1e1|

+f z 1 (p1ep2ez 0 −ep1ep2ez 1) i = 0.5−2p 2 f0 ·(p 1e0 +ep1e1)−2ep2 f1 ·(p 1e0 −ep1e1). Hence, by Cauchy-Schwartz, J S Q(E,F;p 1, p2)≥ 1 2 −2p 2 |f0| |p1e0 +ep1e1| −2ep2 |f1| |p1e0 −ep1e1|. For fixedE 0, E1, the right-hand side is decreasing in|f 0|and|f 1|. Hence it is optimal to maximize both|f 0|and|f 1|. Since |f0| ≤min{f 0 0 ,1−f 0 0 } ≤ 1 2 ,|f 1| ≤...

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Let Arjuna play a projective strategyE 0, E1

For the dynamic information structure, we give a counterexample. Let Arjuna play a projective strategyE 0, E1. Thene 0 0 =e 0 1 = 1 2 ,|e 0|=|e 1|= 1 2 .Using (22), we get J D Q(E,F;p s, pc) = 1 2 ps +epsepc +f 0 0 (−ps +p sepc +epspc) +f 0 1 (pspc −epsepc) −f 0 ·(p se0 +epse1)−f 1 ·(p se0 −epse1). Now for the counterexample choosep s = 1 2 , pc > 1 2 ,an...

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(a) When Arjuna plays classical strategies: note thatE 0, E1 ∈ {O, I}represent all 4 classical strategies

For the static information structure, we first make a few observations that will be required in the proof. (a) When Arjuna plays classical strategies: note thatE 0, E1 ∈ {O, I}represent all 4 classical strategies. Thene 0 i ∈ {0,1},f 0 j ∈[0,1], and using (20), we get ⟨AiBj⟩= (−1) e0 i (1−2f 0 j ).(38) Using this in (21) and collecting thef 0 j -terms, we...

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(a) When Arjuna plays classical strategies: note thatE 0, E1 ∈ {O, I}represent all 4 classical strategies

For the dynamic information structure, we again make two observations. (a) When Arjuna plays classical strategies: note thatE 0, E1 ∈ {O, I}represent all 4 classical strategies. Thene 0 0, e0 1 ∈ {0,1},f 0 0 , f0 1 ∈[0,1], and using (22), we get J D Q =f 0 0 (psepc +epspc −p se0 0 −epse0

[27] [28]

+f 0 1 (pspc −epsepc −p se0 0 +epse0

[28] [29]

+p se0 0 +epsepc.(41) (b) When Bhima plays classical strategies: thenf 0 0 , f0 1 ∈ {0,1},e 0 0, e0 1 ∈[0,1]. Starting from (22) and collecting thee 0 0, e0 1-terms, we get J D Q =e 0 0ps(1−f 0 0 −f 0 1 ) +e 0 1eps(f0 1 −f 0 0 ) +f 0 0 (psepc +epspc) +f 0 1 (pspc −epsepc) +epsepc.(42) We now verify person-by-person optimality in two exhaustive regions. Ca...

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Since both players have the same objective function, any team-optimal pair of strategies is necessarily person-by- person optimal

For the static information structure, from Theorem 3.5, we know thatJ S∗ Q is always attainable via projective strategies played by both players. Since both players have the same objective function, any team-optimal pair of strategies is necessarily person-by- person optimal. Hence, for everyp 1, p2, there exists a pair of projective strategies that is pe...

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Choosep s = 1 2 , pc = 1

For the dynamic information structure, we give a counterexample. Choosep s = 1 2 , pc = 1. Theneps = 1 2 andepc = 0. Let Arjuna play an arbitrary projective strategy. Thene 0 0 =e 0 1 = 1 2 ,|e 0|=|e 1|= 1 2 .Using (22), we get J D Q(E,F;p s, pc) =− 1 2 Tr[(E0 ⊗F 0)ρ]− 1 2 Tr[(E0 ⊗F 1)ρ]− 1 2 Tr[(E1 ⊗F 0)ρ] + 1 2 Tr[(E1 ⊗F 1)ρ] + 1 2 Tr[(E0 ⊗I)ρ] + 1 2 Tr...

[31] [32]

Hence, by Cauchy-Schwartz, 1 2(e0 −e 1)·f 1 ≤ 1 2(e0 −e 1) |f1| ≤ 1 2 |f1| ≤ 1 2 f0 1

Also, for any POVM elementF 1, |f1| ≤min{f 0 1 ,1−f 0 1 } ≤f 0 1 . Hence, by Cauchy-Schwartz, 1 2(e0 −e 1)·f 1 ≤ 1 2(e0 −e 1) |f1| ≤ 1 2 |f1| ≤ 1 2 f0 1 . Therefore 1 2 f0 1 − 1 2(e0 −e 1)·f 1 ≥0. So, for fixedE 0, E1, theF 1-dependent part ofJ D Q(E,F;p s, pc) is always nonnegative, and is minimized by takingf 0 1 = 0,f 1 = 0,that is,F 1 =O.Thus, for eve...