The uncertainty principle: Variations on a theme

DOI10.1090/BULL/1715MaRDI QIDQ5854480zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Wigderson, Yuval Wigderson

Publication date 17 March 2021

Published in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11206

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms on locally compact and other abelian groups (43A25) Uncertainty relations, also entropic (81S07) Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12)

Abstract: We show how a number of well-known uncertainty principles for the Fourier transform, such as the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, the Donoho--Stark uncertainty principle, and Meshulam's non-abelian uncertainty principle, have little to do with the structure of the Fourier transform itself. Rather, all of these results follow from very weak properties of the Fourier transform (shared by numerous linear operators), namely that it is bounded as an operator $L^{1}o{L}^{i}nfty$, and that it is unitary. Using a single, simple proof template, and only these (or weaker) properties, we obtain some new proofs and many generalizations of these basic uncertainty principles, to new operators and to new settings, in a completely unified way. Together with our general overview, this paper can also serve as a survey of the many facets of the phenomena known as uncertainty principles.

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