What is the Wigner function closest to a given square integrable function?

DOI10.1137/18M116633XMaRDI QIDQ4685018zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 4 October 2018

Published in SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.05635

zbMATH Keywords

Hilbert-Schmidt operatorsWeyl quantizationWigner approximationWigner functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Pseudodifferential operators as generalizations of partial differential operators (35S05) Approximations and expansions (41A99) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms and other transforms of Fourier type (42B10) Function spaces arising in harmonic analysis (42B35) General mathematical topics and methods in quantum theory (81Q99)

Abstract: We consider an arbitrary square integrable function $F$ on the phase space and look for the Wigner function closest to it with respect to the $L^2$ norm. It is well known that the minimizing solution is the Wigner function of any eigenvector associated with the largest eigenvalue of the Hilbert-Schmidt operator with Weyl symbol $F$. We solve the particular case of radial functions on the two-dimensional phase space exactly. For more general cases, one has to solve an infinite dimensional eigenvalue problem. To avoid this difficulty, we consider a finite dimensional approximation and estimate the errors for the eigenvalues and eigenvectors. As an application, we address the so-called Wigner approximation suggested by some of us for the propagation of a pulse in a general dispersive medium. We prove that this approximation never leads to a {it bona fide} Wigner function. This is our prime motivation for our optimization problem. As a by-product of our results we are able to estimate the eigenvalues and Schatten norms of certain Schatten-class operators. The techniques presented here may be potentially interesting for estimating eigenvalues of localization operators in time-frequency analysis and quantum mechanics.

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