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We show how a number of well-known uncertainty principles for the Fourier transform, such as the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, the Donoho--Stark uncertainty principle, and Meshulam's non-abelian uncertainty principle, have little to do…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Avi Wigderson , Yuval Wigderson

We obtain the affine Euler-Poincar\'e equations by standard Lagrangian reduction and deduce the associated Clebsch-constrained variational principle. These results are illustrated in deriving the equations of motion for continuum spin…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-04-10 F. Gay-Balmaz , D. D. Holm , T. S. Ratiu

In this paper we review the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in a discrete setting and, as in the classical uncertainty principle, we give it a dynamical sense related to the discrete Schr\"odinger equation. We study the convergence of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Aingeru Fernández-Bertolin

We derive an uncertainty principle for Lipschitz maps acting on subsets of Banach spaces. We show that this nonlinear uncertainty principle reduces to the Heisenberg-Robertson-Schrodinger uncertainty principle for linear operators acting on…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-26 K. Mahesh Krishna

We introduce a self-consistent theoretical framework associated with the Schwinger unitary operators whose basic mathematical rules embrace a new uncertainty principle that generalizes and strengthens the Massar-Spindel inequality. Among…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-28 Marcelo A. Marchiolli , Paulo E. M. F. Mendonca

We propose the construction of equations of motion based on symmetries in quantum-mechanical systems, using Heisenberg's uncertainty principle as a minimal foundation. From canonical operators, two spaces of conjugate operators are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Enrique Casanova , José Rojas , Melvin Arias

The uncertainty principle lemma for the Laplacian on Euclidean spaces shows the borderline-behavior of a potential for the following question : whether the Schr\"odinger operator has a finite or infinite number of the discrete pectrum. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-01-13 Kazuo Akutagawa , Hironori Kumura

A central problem in signal processing and communications is to design signals that are compact both in time and frequency. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle states that a given function cannot be arbitrarily compact both in time and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Reza Parhizkar , Yann Barbotin , Martin Vetterli

The Schrodinger equation is incomplete, inherently unable to explain the collapse of the wavefunction caused by measurement; a fundamental issue known as the quantum measurement problem. Quantum mechanics is generally constrained by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Kyoung Yeon Kim

We prove a new uncertainty principle for square-integrable irreducible unitary representations of connected Lie groups. The concentration of the matrix coefficients is measured in terms of weighted $L^p$ norms, with weights in the local…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Fabio Nicola

We explicitly solve a variational problem related to upper bounds on the optimal constants in the Cwikel--Lieb--Rozenblum (CLR) and Lieb--Thirring (LT) inequalities, which has recently been derived in [Invent. Math. 231 (2023), no.1,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-24 Thiago Carvalho Corso , Tobias Ried

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is formulated for a set of generalized measurements within the framework of majorization theory, resulting in a partial uncertainty order on probability vectors that is stronger than those based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-26 M. Hossein Partovi

We consider the Heisenberg uncertainty principle of position and momentum in 3-dimensional spaces of constant curvature $K$. The uncertainty of position is defined coordinate independent by the geodesic radius of spherical domains in which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-01 Thomas Schürmann

We show various uncertainty principles for the Fourier transform on harmonic manifolds of rank one. In particular, we derive a Heisenberg uncertainty principle, a Morgen theorem, an uncertainty principle for the Schr\"odinger equation and a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Oliver Brammen

We study sharp second order inequalities of Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg type in the euclidian space $\mathbb{R}^{N}$, where $N$ denotes the dimension. This analysis is equivalent to the study of uncertainty principles for special classes of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 Cristian Cazacu , Joshua Flynn , Nguyen Lam

The aim of this paper is to prove new uncertainty principles for an integral operator $\tt$ with a bounded kernel for which there is a Plancherel theorem. The first of these results is an extension of Faris's local uncertainty principle…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-08-27 Saifallah Ghobber , Philippe Jaming

The Weinstein operator has several applications in pure and applied Mathematics especially in Fluid Mechanics and satisfies some uncertainty principles similar to the Euclidean Fourier transform. The aim of this paper is establish a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Ahmed Saoudi

Determining the measurement uncertainty region is a difficult problem for generic sets of observables. For this reason the literature on exact measurement uncertainty regions is focused on symmetric sets of observables, where the symmetries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-12 Oliver Reardon-Smith

Quantum harmonic analysis on phase space is shown to be linked with localization operators. The convolution between operators and the convolution between a function and an operator provide a conceptual framework for the theory of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Franz Luef , Eirik Skrettingland

Uncertainty principles for concentration of signals into truncated subspaces are considered. The ``classic'' uncertainty principle is explored as a special case of a more general operator framework. The time-bandwidth concentration problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Ram Somaraju , Leif W. Hanlen