%0 Journal Article %J Illinois J. Math. %D 2008 %T Uncertainty principles for compact groups %A Gorjan Alagic %A Alexander Russell %X

We establish an uncertainty principle over arbitrary compact groups, generalizing several previous results. Specifically, we show that if P and R are operators on L2(G) such that P commutes with projection onto every measurable subset of G and R commutes with left-multiplication by elements of G, then ∥PR∥≤∥P⋅χG∥2∥R∥2, where χG:g↦1 is the characteristic function of G. As a consequence, we show that every nonzero function f in L2(G) satisfies μ(suppf)⋅∑ρ∈G^dρrankf^(ρ)≥1.

%B Illinois J. Math. %V 52 %P 1315-1324 %G eng %U http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ijm/1258554365 %N 4 %R doi:10.1215/ijm/1258554365