Polar duality conjecture for position and momentum ellipsoids
Polar duality conjecture for position and momentum ellipsoids
Let measurements of position and momentum be modeled by centered ellipsoids and in the position and momentum spaces, respectively. For a centered set , write
for its polar body.
Polar duality conjecture. The ellipsoids and form a dual pair:
This is proposed as a physical formulation of the uncertainty principle that is independent of the particular choice of variances and covariances used to measure uncertainty, and could in principle be justified experimentally. The source does not state whether the conjecture has been proved or disproved.
Sources & referencesView supporting material
Primary source
Maurice de Gosson, “Polar Duality Between Pairs of Transverse Lagrangian Planes. Applications to Uncertainty Principles”, arXiv:2110.14479 (2021).
Progress summary
Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.
Solutions 0
Sign in to submit a solution.
No solutions have been posted yet.