An uncertainty inequality involving $L^1$ norms

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.