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Tsirelson Bound from D4 Symmetry on the Bloch Sphere — E8 Intelligence Research

Andrew Stewart Caldin

Published Jul 21, 2026• 0 citations
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FINDING: The Tsirelson bound derivation connects the CHSH polytope's extremal correlations to the dihedral group D4 symmetry on the Bloch sphere, revealing a geometric constraint on quantum correlations. | MATH: Tsirelson bound = 2√2 ≈ 2.828; CHSH inequality classical bound = 2; quantum violation up to 2√2; Bloch sphere representation: |ψ⟩ = cos(θ/2)|0⟩ + e^{iφ} sin(θ/2)|1⟩; D4 group order 8, symmetry of square, acts on measurement settings (a, a', b, b') via rotations and reflections. | CONNECTION: The ratio 2.828/2 = 1.414 = √2, linking to 0.618 via golden ratio φ: √2 ≈ 1.414, φ ≈ 1.618; D4 is crystallographic point group (tetragonal system), root system B2, lattice Z²; Bloch sphere's SU(2) symmetry reduces to D4 for CHSH extremal points. | DEPTH: 8 — Directly ties quantum nonlocality to finite group geometry and lattice structures, with explicit constants and symmetry breaking. Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com

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10.5281/zenodo.21467064

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