On the prolate spheroidal wave functions and Hardy's uncertainty principle

DOI10.1007/S00041-014-9319-4MaRDI QIDQ485250zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Elmar Pauwels, Maurice de Gosson

Publication date 9 January 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.7146

zbMATH Keywords

Fourier transformsignal theoryprolate spheroidal wave functionsHardy uncertainty principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms and other transforms of Fourier type (42B10) Lamé, Mathieu, and spheroidal wave functions (33E10)

Abstract: We prove a weak version of Hardy's uncertainty principle using properties of the prolate spheroidal wave functions (PSWFs). We describe the eigenvalues of the sum of a time limiting operator and a band limiting operator acting on L2(R). A weak version of Hardy's uncertainty principle follows from the asymptotic behavior of the largest eigenvalue as the time limit and the band limit approach infinity. An asymptotic formula for this eigenvalue is obtained from its well-known counterpart for the prolate integral operator.

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