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One of the formulations of Heisenberg uncertainty principle, concerning so-called measurement uncertainty, states that the measurement of one observable modifies the statistics of the other. Here, we derive such a measurement uncertainty…

As a time-shifted and frequency-modulated version of the linear canonical transform (LCT), the offset linear canonical transform (OLCT) provides a more general framework of most existing linear integral transforms in signal processing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-30 Haiye Huo , Wenchang Sun , Li Xiao

We obtain a new version of the Uncertainty Principle for functions with Fourier transforms supported on a lacunary set of intervals. This is a generalization of Zygmund's theorem on lacunary trigonometric series to the real line in the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 O. Kovrizhkin

A generalized uncertainty principle is obtained from a conformally transformed action containing a scalar field and a unique constraint. The constraint's Lagrange multiplier is found to obey a relativistic diffusion equation transforming…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-24 Dor Gabay

Maximum entropy principle identifies forces conjugated to observables and the thermodynamic relations between them, independent upon their underlying mechanistic details. For data about state distributions or transition statistics, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-08 Ying-Jen Yang , Hong Qian

Let $f$ be a finite signal. The classical uncertainty principle tells us that the product of the support of $f$ and the support of $\hat{f}$, the Fourier transform of $f$, must satisfy $|supp(f)|\cdot|supp(\hat{f})|\geq |G|$. Recently,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-09-08 A. Iosevich , I. Li , Z. Li , E. Yu

Uncertainty principles for generating systems $\{e_n\}_{n=1}^{\infty} \subset \ltwo$ are proven and quantify the interplay between $\ell^r(\N)$ coefficient stability properties and time-frequency localization with respect to $|t|^p$ power…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Philippe Jaming , Alexander M. Powell

Uncertainty principle is one of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics. In this work, we derive two uncertainty equalities, which hold for all pairs of incompatible observables. We also obtain an uncertainty relation in weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-12 Qiu-Cheng Song , Cong-Feng Qiao

Uncertainty principle, a fundamental principle in quantum physics, has been studied intensively via various uncertainty inequalities. Here we derive an uncertainty equality in terms of linear entropy, and show that the sum of uncertainty in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 Zhihao Ma , Shengjun Wu , Zhihua Chen

Based on the doubly special relativity we find a new type of generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) where the coordinate remain unaltered at the high energy while the momentum is deformed at the high energy so that it may be bounded from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-26 Won Sang Chung , Hassan Hassanabadi

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 approach uncertainty principles of Cowling-Price-Heis-\\enberg-type as a variational principle on modulation spaces. In our discussion we are naturally led to compact localization operators with symbols in modulation spaces. The optimal…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Nuno Costa Dias , Franz Luef , João Nuno Prata

We give a concentration inequality based on the premise that random variables take values within a particular region. The concentration inequality guarantees that, for any sequence of correlated random variables, the difference between the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-02-21 Go Kato

The uncertainty principle is one of the fundamental features of quantum mechanics and plays an essential role in quantum information theory. We study uncertainty relations based on variance for arbitrary finite $N$ quantum observables. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-30 Jing-Feng Wu , Qing-Hua Zhang , Shao-Ming Fei

Some of the possible consequences of a generalized uncertainty principle (which emerges in the context of string theory and quantum gravity models as a consequence of fluctuations of the background metric) are analyzed considering the case…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Abel Camacho

The classical support uncertainty principle states that the signal and its discrete Fourier transform (DFT) cannot be localized simultaneously in an arbitrary small area in the time and the frequency domain. The product of the number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Ljubisa Stankovic

The measurements with the background estimation from an off-zone are widely used in astrophysics, accelerator physics and other areas. Usually, the expected number of the background events in the off-zone and in the on-zone is known with a…

Applications · Statistics 2013-05-02 Vladimir Kulikovskiy

A prominent formulation of the uncertainty principle identifies the fundamental quantum feature that no particle may be prepared with certain outcomes for both position and momentum measurements. Often the statistical uncertainties are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Fabian Furrer , Mario Berta , Marco Tomamichel , Volkher B. Scholz , Matthias Christandl

We develop a method for the transfer of an uncertainty principle for the short-time Fourier transform or a Fourier pair to an uncertainty principle for a sesquilinear or quadratic metaplectic time-frequency representation. In particular, we…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Karlheinz Gröchenig , Irina Shafkulovska

We establish uncertainty principles on compact Riemannian manifolds without boundary by combining restriction estimates for orthonormal systems with spectral projection bounds for Laplace-Beltrami and Schr\"odinger operators. Our results…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Alex Iosevich , Chamsol Park