Sharp Uncertainty Principle for Transitive $G$-Sets over Arbitrary Fields and Finite Groups
Abstract
For any finite group , any transitive -set and any field , we consider the vector space of all functions from to , which is a -space isomorphic to the permutation -module . When the group algebra is semisimple and split, we find a specific basis of and, for , construct the Fourier transform . We define the rank support and prove that , where is the submodule of generated by the element . 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 , we construct a block of and a subset of determined by the support of , and show that and where denotes the subspace of spanned by the subset . 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 is a prime and , we give a lower bound on that recovers Tao's 2005 strong uncertainty principle, along with a precise characterization of the equality case.
Cite
@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}
}