The Uncertainty Principle: A Mathematical Survey

Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 207-238

  Folland, Gerald B ^a   Sitaram, Alladi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Fourier transform; Heisenberg's inequality; Landau pollak slepiun theory; Logarithmic inequalities; Phase space; Uncertainty principle; Wigner distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039768601     PISSN: 10695869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02649110     Document Type: Article

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