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An uncertainty inequality involving $L^{1}$ norms

Author(s): Enrico Laeng; Carlo Morpurgo
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 127 (1999), 3565-3572.
MSC (1991): Primary 26D15, 42A82
Posted: May 17, 1999
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Abstract: We derive a sharp uncertainty inequality of the form

\begin{equation*}\|x^{2} f\|_{1}^{} \,\|\xi \;\,\hat {f}\|_{2}^{2}\ge  {\frac{\Lambda _{0}}{4\pi ^{2}}}\,  \|f\|_{1}^{}\,\|f\|_{2}^{2},\end{equation*}

with $\Lambda _{0}=0.428368\dots $. As a consequence of this inequality we derive an upper bound for the so-called Laue constant, that is, the infimum $\lambda _{0}^{}$ of the functional $\lambda (p)=4\pi ^{2} \|x^{2} p\|_{1}^{}\|x^{2} \hat  p\|_{1}^{}/(p(0)\hat p(0))$, taken over all $p\ge 0$ with $\hat p\ge 0\;$ ($p\not \equiv 0$). Precisely, we obtain that $\lambda _{0}^{}\le 2\Lambda _{0}=0.85673673\dots ,$ which improves a previous bound of T. Gneiting.


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Additional Information:

Enrico Laeng
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
Email: enrlae@mate.polimi.it

Carlo Morpurgo
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
Email: morpurgo@dsdipa.mat.unimi.it

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-99-05022-4
PII: S 0002-9939(99)05022-4
Received by editor(s): February 13, 1998
Posted: May 17, 1999
Additional Notes: The second author was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-9622891.
Communicated by: Christopher D. Sogge
Copyright of article: Copyright 1999, American Mathematical Society


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