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# SOC Observation Code
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## Description
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SOC stands for **S**OC **O**bservation **C**ode, and is composed of two C programs:
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- One, `SOCgen`, to generate SOC graphs (here, SOC stands for Siblings-on-Cycles),
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- and another, `SOCadmissible`, to verify the admissibility of these graphs as quantum causal structures.
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These programs are used in support of Conjecture 1 in the article [Admissible Causal Structures and Correlations, arXiv:2210.12796 \[quant-ph\]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.12796).
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## Installation
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First, clone this repository, and then simply run
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```
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$ cd soc-observation-code/
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$ make
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```
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This compiles the two programs as `SOCgen` and `SOCadmissible`.
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## Usage
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To display help and exit, run the respective program without command-line arguments.
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### SOCgen
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```
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$ ./SOCgen
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Usage: ./SOCgen -n <order> [-r <num> ] [FILTER ...]
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-n <order> Generate SOCs with `order' connected nodes
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-r <num> Pick directed graphs at random, and exit after having found `num' SOCs
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[FILTER] Consider only simple directed graphs ...
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-c ... that are cyclic (i.e., not DAGs)
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--no-sink ... without sink nodes (this logically implies -c)
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--no-source ... without source nodes (also this logically implies -c)
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This program prints the found SOCs as adjacency matrices to stdout.
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To exclude (some) of the isomorphic SOCs, it uses a degree-order filter.
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```
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### SOCadmissible
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```
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$ ./SOCadmissible
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Usage: ./SOCadmissible <filename> [<startline> [<endline> | +<count>]]
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<filename> File name with adjacency matrices of simple directed graphs
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<startline> Verify graphs starting from line `startline'
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<endline> Verify graphs up to and including line `endline'
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+<count> Verify `count' number of graphs
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[FILE FORMAT]
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Each line in `filename' must contain the adjacency matrix of a simple directed graph in the format
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{{a00,a01,...},{a10,a11,...},...} where aij=1 if and only if the graph has the edge i -> j
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The file `filename' may contain graphs with different order (number of vertices)
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This program verifies the admissibility of simple directed graphs.
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```
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### Example
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To generate all SOCs with three nodes, and save them in the file `3.soc`, run:
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```
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$ ./SOCgen -n 3 > 3.soc
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Generating SOCs with 3 nodes
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100.00% 64/64 (found=6 at rate 64.00 graphs/s in 0 seconds)
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Found 6 SOCs at rate 64.00 graphs/s in 0 seconds
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```
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The admissibility of these graphs can then be checked by running:
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```
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$ ./SOCadmissible 3.soc
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Verifying the admissibility of 6 graphs in the file `3.soc' (line 1 to line 6)
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100.00% 6/6 (verification rate 6.00 graphs/s in 0 seconds; current line 6)
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These graphs are admissible
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```
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The SOCs generated can easily be displayed with Mathematica using the following:
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```
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SOCs = DirectedGraph[AdjacencyGraph[#]] & /@ ToExpression[Import["./3.soc", "List"]];
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SOCs = DeleteDuplicatesBy[SOCs, CanonicalGraph];
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SOCs
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```
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## Limitations
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In `SOCgen`, each simple directed graph is represented by a 64bit unsigned integer:
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This integer is interpreted as a vector of bits, where each bit specifies the absence or presence of a directed edge from one node to another.
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Since we consider simple directed graphs only (no self-loops), there are `n(n-1)` possible directed edges, where `n` is the number of nodes.
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This means that the largest number of nodes possible is limited by `n=8`.
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While the SOCs generated by `SOCgen` satisfy some degree-order (see function `isdegreeordered(...)` in [SOCgen.c](./SOCgen.c)), `SOCgen` does not perform graph-isomorphism tests, and may output multiple isomorphic graphs.
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## License
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[GPL-3.0-or-later](./LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt) |