Lieb's Wehrl norm conjecture for spin coherent states

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Let Fj{\mathcal F}_j be the spin-jj function space on S2=C∪{∞}{\mathbb S}^2={\mathbb C}\cup\{\infty\}, and for p≥1p\geq 1 define the normalized norm by

∥f∥p:=(pj+1π∫C∣f(z)∣pd2z(1+∣z∣2)2)1/p.\lVert f\rVert_p:=\left(\frac{pj+1}{\pi}\int_{\mathbb C}|f(z)|^p\frac{d^2z}{(1+|z|^2)^2}\right)^{1/p}.

Let K(z,w)K(z,w) denote the coherent-vector kernel. Lieb's norm conjecture. For every f∈Fjf\in{\mathcal F}_j and q≥p≥1q\geq p\geq1,

∥f∥q≤∥f∥p.\lVert f\rVert_q\leq\lVert f\rVert_p.

If q>pq>p, equality holds if and only if ff is collinear with a coherent vector, namely f(z)=cK(z,w)f(z)=cK(z,w) for some c∈Cc\in{\mathbb C} and w∈C∪{∞}w\in{\mathbb C}\cup\{\infty\}. The conjecture is the norm-inequality formulation underlying sharp Wehrl and Rényi–Wehrl entropy bounds; the supplied source records that related even-integer cases were known, while the full range, especially indices arbitrarily close to p=2p=2, remained unproved there.

References

Primary source

Bernhard G. Bodmann, “A lower bound for the Wehrl entropy of quantum spin with sharp high-spin asymptotics”, arXiv:math-ph/0307061 (2003).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (1999–2003). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math-ph/9902017.

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