Specific representations of these mathematical objects called “spiders” are generators of a string diagram in ZX-calculus. Quantum circuits are represented using these objects in networks that can be described using Penrose notation. A multi-particle Hilbert space is constructed by applying an operation named for these objects that, when applied to spaces of dimensions m and n, produces one of dimension m times n. These objects can be divided into covariant and contravariant components. A generalization of trace on these objects called “contraction” applies when an index appears as both a subscript and superscript in Einstein notation. A product named for these objects is denoted by a times symbol inside a circle. For 10 points, name these objects that correspond to multilinear maps and whose rank-2 representations are matrices. ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 88.33 |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.00 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 67% | 108.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 67% | 0% | 50% | 99.00 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 92.83 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 74.67 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 0% | 78.50 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 40% | 94.67 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 78.50 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 64.67 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 40% | 109.22 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 14% | 89.33 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 84.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Omer Keskin | Oxford A | Imperial B | 19 | -5 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | BU | 29 | 10 |
| Cormac Stephenson | Southampton A | Cambridge D | 31 | -5 |
| JD Kroth | Iowa State | Wisconsin B | 40 | 10 |
| Leo Law | Florida A | UCF C | 44 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | UC Berkeley A | UCSD | 45 | 10 |
| Rasheeq Azad | UNC B | Duke | 45 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Maryland A | 45 | 10 |
| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Chicago B | 47 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Northwestern B | 59 | -5 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech A | 60 | 10 |
| Peter Ballas | Michigan D | Carnegie Mellon A | 61 | -5 |
| Jerry Zhang | Harvard B | Tufts A | 62 | 10 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech D | 62 | 10 |
| James Byrne | Bristol | LSE | 62 | 10 |
| Jiping Fang | Illinois C | Missoui S&T | 64 | -5 |
| Adam Iqbal | Durham | Cambridge A | 64 | 10 |
| Maximilian Niebur | Johns Hopkins A | Columbia B | 64 | 10 |
| Aidan Jones | Liberty A | William & Mary | 67 | -5 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Rutgers A | 67 | -5 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Kenyon | 70 | 10 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin A | Minnesota B | 71 | 10 |
| Viraj Negandhi | Texas B | Texas A | 71 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield | Cambridge B | 71 | -5 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton B | Imperial A | 71 | -5 |
| Danny Han | Penn A | Vassar A | 71 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Binghamton A | 71 | 10 |
| Leo Tao | Michigan C | Michigan State | 72 | -5 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Vanderbilt A | 72 | 10 |
| Mitchell Indek | Michigan B | Ohio State B | 74 | -5 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont B | UCLA | 79 | -5 |
| Sam Kung | UNC D | South Carolina | 79 | -5 |
| Adam Fine | Chicago A | WashU A | 79 | 10 |
| Wyatt Curry | Missouri | Illinois B | 79 | -5 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford B | Purdue | 82 | 10 |
| Coby Tran | Chicago C | Chicago D | 83 | 10 |
| Stefan Stealey-Euchner | ASU | TAMU | 86 | 10 |
| Vinu Harihar | UC Berkeley B | Claremont A | 92 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Liberty C | 95 | 10 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Harvard A | 95 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Notre Dame A | 95 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell C | ESF A | 97 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Case Western B | 106 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU B | Indiana B | 107 | 10 |
| Matt Schiavone | Northwestern A | Iowa | 107 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Cambridge E | 108 | 10 |
| Benjamin Liu | Oxford C | Warwick B | 110 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Rutgers A | John Jay College | 110 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 113 | 10 |
| Bill Zhao | Florida B | UCF B | 116 | 10 |
| Jacob Harl | Missoui S&T | Illinois C | 116 | 10 |
| Jonah Hubert | Notre Dame B | Notre Dame C | 120 | -5 |
| Samuel Miller | Liberty B | Virginia A | 121 | -5 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Yale A | 121 | 10 |
| Jayden Ku | Carnegie Mellon B | Case Western A | 125 | -5 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois B | Missouri | 125 | 10 |
| Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia C | Maryland B | 125 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty B | 127 | 0 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Oxford B | 127 | 10 |
| Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | Claremont B | 128 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State B | Michigan B | 128 | 10 |
| David Nieman | Carnegie Mellon A | Michigan D | 128 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Liberty A | 128 | 10 |
| Braeden LaRoche | South Carolina | UNC D | 128 | 0 |
| Vedang Singhal | UNC C | Wake Forest | 128 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | UMass Boston | 128 | 0 |
| Jake Markus | Dartmouth A | Brandeis B | 128 | 10 |
| Will Sanders | Notre Dame C | Notre Dame B | 128 | 0 |
| Eric Feichthaler | Georgetown A | Georgetown B | 128 | 0 |
| Ben Horning | Georgetown B | Georgetown A | 128 | 0 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Southampton B | 128 | 10 |
| Alex Baker | Cambridge C | NYU C | 128 | 10 |
| Linus Luu | Cambridge D | Southampton A | 128 | 10 |
| Rafael Castro | Imperial B | Oxford A | 128 | 0 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | Sheffield | 128 | 10 |
| Alexandria Wyers | George Washington A | George Washington B | 128 | 0 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington B | George Washington A | 128 | 0 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | RIT B | 128 | 0 |
| Jared Schwartz | RIT B | Cornell D | 128 | 0 |