# Linear conic formulations for two-party correlations and values of nonlocal games

@article{Sikora2017LinearCF,
title={Linear conic formulations for two-party correlations and values of nonlocal games},
author={Jamie Sikora and Antonios Varvitsiotis},
journal={Mathematical Programming},
year={2017},
volume={162},
pages={431-463}
}
• Published 24 June 2015
• Mathematics
• Mathematical Programming
In this work we study the sets of two-party correlations generated from a Bell scenario involving two spatially separated systems with respect to various physical models. We show that the sets of classical, quantum, no-signaling and unrestricted correlations can be expressed as projections of affine sections of appropriate convex cones. As a by-product, we identify a spectrahedral outer approximation to the set of quantum correlations which is contained in the first level of the Navascués…
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