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Sharp second order uncertainty principles

Mathematical Physics 2020-12-24 v1 Functional Analysis math.MP

Abstract

We study sharp second order inequalities of Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg type in the euclidian space RN\mathbb{R}^{N}, where NN denotes the dimension. This analysis is equivalent to the study of uncertainty principles for special classes of vector fields. In particular, we show that when switching from scalar fields u:\rrnCu: \rr^n\rightarrow \mathbb{C} to vector fields of the form u:=U\vec{u}:=\nabla U (UU being a scalar field) the best constant in the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (HUP) increases from N24\frac{N^{2}}{4} to (N+2)24\frac{(N+2)^{2}}{4}, and the optimal constant in the Hydrogen Uncertainty Principle (HyUP) improves from (N1)24\frac{\left( N-1\right)^{2}}{4} to (N+1)24\frac{(N+1)^{2}}{4}. As a consequence of our results we answer to the open question of Maz'ya (Integral Equations Operator Theory 2018) in the case N=2N=2 regarding the HUP for divergence free vector fields.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2012.12667,
  title  = {Sharp second order uncertainty principles},
  author = {Cristian Cazacu and Joshua Flynn and Nguyen Lam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.12667},
  year   = {2020}
}

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25 pages

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