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We characterise the set of correlations between quantum labs that respect causality and prove that they form a convex polytope. We show the technique of polytope characterisation—how to obtain the vertices, which are input to a software to obtain the facets—for a bipartite scenario and apply it in the simplest tripartite case.
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Giarmatzi, C. (2019). Causal Polytopes. In: Rethinking Causality in Quantum Mechanics. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31930-4_4
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