The heat kernel and Heisenberg inequalities related to the Kontorovich-Lebedev transform (Q651997)

The Kontorovich-Lebedev transform has been used in many applications including, for instance, fluid mechanics, quantum and nano-optics and plasmonics. This transform, where integration occurs over the index of the function rather than over the argument, proves to be useful in solving the resulting differential equations when modeling optical or electronic response of such problems. It arises naturally when one uses the method of separation of variables to solve boundary-value problems in terms of cylindrical coordinate systems. In this paper, the author introduce a notion of the heat kernel related to the familiar Kontorovich-Lebedev transform. He studies differential and semigroup properties of this kernel and constructs fundamental solutions of a generalized diffusion equation. An integral transformation with the heat kernel is considered. By using the Plancherel \(L_2\)-theory for the Kontorovich-Lebedev transform and norm estimates for its convolution he establishes analogs of the classical Heisenberg inequality and uncertainty principle for this transformation. The proof is also based on the norm inequalities for the Mellin transform of the heat kernel.