On Hardy's uncertainty principle for solvable locally compact groups (Q2380391): Difference between revisions

Hardy's uncertainty principle says that a non-zero integrable function \(f\) on \(\mathbb R^n\) and its Fourier transform \(\widehat f\) cannot both be very rapidly decreasing, more exactly, if \(|f(x)|\leq C\exp{(-\alpha\|x\|^2)}\) and \(\|\widehat f(y)\|\leq C\exp{(-\beta\|y\|^2)}\) for some \(\alpha>0\), \(\beta>0\) such that \(\alpha\beta>1/4\) then \(f=0\). Analogues of this principle are established for locally compact abelian groups and for some classes of solvable Lie groups, such as diamond groups and exponential Lie groups with non-trivial center.