Incomparability conjecture for non-Heisenberg uncertainty principles

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Let S(R)\mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}) denote the Schwartz space, let f^\widehat f be the Fourier transform of ff, and for 2≠q∈(1,∞]2\neq q\in(1,\infty] define

Fq:S(R)∖{0}⟶R>0,Fq(f)=∥f∥q∥f^∥q∥f∥2∥f^∥2=∥f∥q∥f^∥q∥f∥22.F_q:\mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R})\setminus\{0\}\longrightarrow\mathbb{R}_{>0},\qquad F_q(f)=\frac{\|f\|_q\|\widehat f\|_q}{\|f\|_2\|\widehat f\|_2}=\frac{\|f\|_q\|\widehat f\|_q}{\|f\|_2^2}.

Incomparability conjecture. The image of FqF_q is all of R>0\mathbb{R}_{>0}.

This asserts that, for every q≠2q\neq2, the corresponding uncertainty principle can be arbitrarily stronger or weaker than the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. The source states that the claim is expected but unproved.

References

Primary source

Avi Wigderson and Yuval Wigderson, “The uncertainty principle: variations on a theme”, arXiv:2006.11206 (2020).

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