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Entanglement monogamy says that maximal entanglement with one independent system excludes entanglement with another. For three qubits this is quantified by the Coffman--Kundu--Wootters inequality
For example, if is a maximally entangled state, then and the global state factorizes as up to local unitaries, so . The three-qubit GHZ state instead has entanglement across every one-versus-two cut but no pairwise concurrence after the third qubit is traced out.

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