The uncertainty principle: A mathematical survey

DOI10.1007/BF02649110zbMATH Open0885.42006OpenAlexW2015064056WikidataQ55899877 ScholiaQ55899877MaRDI QIDQ1361399FDOQ1361399

Authors: Gerald B. Folland, Alladi Sitaram 

Publication date: 23 July 1997

Published in: The Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/59507

zbMATH Keywords

Fourier transformuncertainty principleWigner distributionHeisenberg inequalitydecomposition of phase spaceLandau-Pollak-Slepian theorylogarithmic inequalities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Inequalities for sums, series and integrals (26D15) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms and other transforms of Fourier type (42B10) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms on locally compact and other abelian groups (43A25) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms on nonabelian groups and on semigroups, etc. (43A30) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to harmonic analysis on Euclidean spaces (42-02)

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