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No test on Alice and Bob's systems gives any information about which global state was prepared, even with arbitrarily many independent copies. In the pure GHZ density matrix, the off-diagonal terms contain $|0⟩⟨1{|}_C$ or its adjoint. Their partial traces vanish. Hence both preparations have the same reduced density matrixFor any POVM effect $E$ acting jointly on $AB$, the outcome probability is $\mathrm{Tr}(E{\sigma }_{AB})$ in either case. Equal reduced states give identical local statistics, where local here means local to the entire accessible laboratory $AB$, not separate operations on $A$ and $B$.^[ref]

For $n$ independent copies, taking the partial trace of each inaccessible $C$ system yields ${\sigma }_{AB}^{\otimes n}$ under either hypothesis. Even an arbitrary collective quantum measurement on all $2n$ accessible qubits therefore has identical outcome probabilities. Adaptive local processing cannot change equality of the accessible density matrices. With equal prior probabilities the optimal guessing probability remains $1/2$; with other priors, no observation updates their ratio.