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Sharp Uncertainty Principle for Transitive $G$-Sets over Arbitrary Fields and Finite Groups

Group Theory 2025-11-18 v3 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

For any finite group GG, any transitive GG-set XX and any field F{\Bbb F}, we consider the vector space FX{\Bbb F}^X of all functions from XX to F{\Bbb F}, which is a GG-space isomorphic to the permutation FG{\Bbb F} G-module FX{\Bbb F} X. When the group algebra FG{\Bbb F} G is semisimple and split, we find a specific basis X^\widehat X of FX{\Bbb F}^X and, for fFXf\in{\Bbb F}^X, construct the Fourier transform f^FX^\widehat f\in{\Bbb F}^{\widehat X}. We define the rank support \mboxrksupp(f^)\mbox{rk-supp}(\widehat f) and prove that \mboxrksupp(f^)=dimFGf\mbox{rk-supp}(\widehat f)=\dim {\Bbb F} G f, where FGf{\Bbb F} G f is the submodule of FX{\Bbb F} X generated by the element f=xXf(x)xf=\sum_{x\in X}f(x)x. Next, we extend and strengthen the sharpened uncertainty principle for finite abelian groups, established by Feng, Hollmann, and Xiang in 2019, to a broader framework and a sharp version. For 0fFX0\ne f\in{\Bbb F}^X, we construct a block Xsupp(f)X_{{\rm supp}(f)} of XX and a subset S ⁣1{\mathscr S}'^{-\!1} of GG determined by the support supp(f){\rm supp}(f) of ff, and show that dimFGfdimFS ⁣1 ⁣f1\dim{\Bbb F} Gf-\dim{\Bbb F}{\mathscr S}'^{-\!1}\!f\ge 1 and supp(f)dimFGfX+( ⁣dimFGfdimFS1f)supp(f)Xsupp(f), |{\rm supp}(f)|\cdot \dim{\Bbb F} Gf \ge |X|+ (\!\dim{\Bbb F} Gf-\dim{\Bbb F}{\mathscr S}'^{-1}f) \cdot|{\rm supp}(f)| -|X_{{\rm supp}(f)}|, where FS1f{\Bbb F}{\mathscr S}'^{-1}f denotes the subspace of FX{\Bbb F}X spanned by the subset S1f={αfαS1}FX{\mathscr S}'^{-1}f=\{\alpha f\,|\,\alpha\in{\mathscr S}'^{-1}\}\subseteq{\Bbb F} X. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the above inequality to achieve equality. As corollaries, we derive many sharpened or classical versions of the finite-dimensional uncertainty principle, address an open question posed by Feng, Hollmann, and Xiang. When G|G| is a prime and X=GX=G, we give a lower bound on dimFGf\dim {\Bbb F}Gf that recovers Tao's 2005 strong uncertainty principle, along with a precise characterization of the equality case.

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@article{arxiv.2211.11204,
  title  = {Sharp Uncertainty Principle for Transitive $G$-Sets over Arbitrary Fields and Finite Groups},
  author = {Bocong Chen and Yun Fan and Gaojun Luo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.11204},
  year   = {2025}
}
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