# On the closure of the completely positive semidefinite cone and linear approximations to quantum colorings

S. Burgdorf, Monique Laurent, Teresa Piovesan

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## Abstract

We investigate structural properties of the completely positive semidefinite cone $\mathcal{CS}_+$, consisting of all the $n \times n$ symmetric matrices that admit a Gram representation by positive semidefinite matrices of any size. This cone has been introduced to model quantum graph parameters as conic optimization problems. Recently it has also been used to characterize the set $\mathcal Q$ of bipartite quantum correlations, as projection of an affine section of it. We have two main results concerning the structure of the completely positive semidefinite cone, namely about its interior and about its closure. On the one hand we construct a hierarchy of polyhedral cones covering the interior of $\mathcal{CS}_+$, which we use for computing some variants of the quantum chromatic number by way of a linear program. On the other hand we give an explicit description of the closure of the completely positive semidefinite cone by showing that it consists of all matrices admitting a Gram representation in the tracial ultraproduct of matrix algebras.
Original language English 2 15-40 Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra 32 https://doi.org/10.13001/1081-3810.3201 Published - 1 Jan 2017

## Keywords

• Quantum graph parameters
• Trace nonnegative polynomials
• Copositive cone
• Chromatic number
• Quantum entanglement
• Nonlocal games
• Von Neumann algebra