
In quantum physics, the concept of the matter wave provides
an apparatus for the mathematical description of the position
of the particle and its Fourier conjugation momentum char-
acterizes the motion of the particle, position, and motion of
the particle intricately undividedly entangled and cannot be
sharply simultaneously known. According to Heisenberg, the
standard deviation of position ∆xand the standard deviation
of momentum ∆pcannot be known simultaneously more
precisely than ℏ
2, where ℏis the reduced Planck constant,
from an analytical perspective, it means that the pair position
and momentum related via Pontryagin conjugation, and the
wave functions in two dual orthonormal bases in the Hilbert
space are Fourier transform of one another, more generally, the
mathematical variant of the uncertainty principle states that a
function ψand its Fourier transform F(ψ)cannot be highly
concentrated at the same time [2, 5, 8, 12]. The uncertainty
principle can be formulated in several different versions that
were proved by Hardy, Narayanan [22, 23], Morgan, Cowling-
Price [16], etc. see the references therein.
Since harmonic analysis is a classical brunch of mathemat-
ical science, there exists extensive literature on the subject
[2, 5, 8], however, mathematical aspects of the uncertainty
principle (the Heisenberg principle of quantum mechanics) are
still demanding additional investigations [1-7].
Following notations of D.L. Donoho and P.B. Stark [2], we
denote an integrable function on the locally compact Hausdorff
group Gby ψand its Fourier transform F(ψ)by ˆ
ψ. Assume
that ψ∈Lp(G)is ε-concentrated on a measurable set T
and Fourier transform ˆ
ψ δ-concentrated on Wthen we have
obtained the uncertainty estimation in the form
1 + δ
1−ε−δp
µG(T) ˆµ(U)≥1
where µGis measure Haar on Gand ˆµis a Plancherel measure
on the set of irreducible unitary representations of G.
To define the Fourier transform F:L2(G/K)→
⟨V(·)⟩(P, ˆµ)= Υ on G/K we need to define a direct
integral decomposition ⟨V(·)⟩(P, ˆµ)=Υ=R⊕V(ω)dˆµ(ω)
of L2(G/K). The direct integral R⊕V(ω)dˆµ(ω)of the set
{V(ω)}ωof Hilbert spaces with respect to the measure ˆµis
a space of measurable vector fields v∈V(ω)of the variable
ωsuch that
∥v∥L2
2=ZP
∥v(ω)∥V(ω)
2dˆµ(ω).
Let Gbe a locally compact group and let π(ω)be a unitary
representation Gon a Hilbert space V(ω)defined for every
ω, and mapping ω7→ π(g, ω)be a measurable field of
mapping for every g∈G, then a unitary representation of
Gon ⟨V(·)⟩(P, ˆµ)is expressed by
π(ω) = Z⊕
(g, ω)dˆµ(ω).
The Fourier transform F:L2(G/K)→ ⟨V(·)⟩(P, ˆµ)= Υ
is defined by F(ψ) (ω) = π(ψ, ω)v(ω), where unit vector
v(ω)∈V(π(ω)) = V(ω).
In its most general form, the Plancherel theory estab-
lishes that presume (G, K)is communicative and ˆµis
its Plancherel measure then ∥ψ∥L2(G/K)=∥F()∥L2(G/K)
and the inverse Fourier transform is given by ψ(g) =
⟨⟨F(ψ), π (g, ·)v(·)⟩V⟩(P, ˆµ).
We are going to compare loosely the uncertainty principle
for G/K with the classical uncertainty inequality of quantum
The Plancherel theory and the uncertainty principle
MYKOLA IVANOVICH YAREMENKO
The National Technical University of Ukraine
Kyiv, UKRAINE
Abstract: In this article, we are revising the Plancherel theory for a unimodular locally compact Hausdorff group with a
Haar measure. Let be a connected semisimple real Lie group such that there exists an analytic diffeomorphism from the
manifold to group according to the rule , decomposition is the Iwasawa decomposition of the group , dim(A) = rank(G).
The group center(G) ⊂ K is closed, under the adjoint representation of is a maximal compact subgroup of the adjoint of ;
subgroups and are simply connected. The associated minimal parabolic subgroup of is . Let and be Lies algebras of and ,
respectively, the norms correspond to the and dual algebra relative to the inner product induced by the Killing form of .Let
an irreducible unitary representation of being presented as a left translation on where is finite-dimensional. Let be an
element of the complexification of .Loosely said the Hardy uncertainty principle maintains that the function and its Fourier
transform cannot be simultaneously both rapidly decreasing. The uncertainty principle is considered from several points of
view: first, we consider the uncertainty principle in the case of a locally compact Hausdorff group G equipped with a
probabilistic Haar measure μG and K be a maximal compact subgroup of G with a probabilistic Haar measure μK then we
establish (1 + δ)p μG (T) 𝜇 (U) ≥ (1 − ε − δ)p, where T is ε-concentration for ψ ∈ Lp (G); second, we establish several
variants of the statement that a function and its Fourier transform cannot be too rapidly decreasing namely |ψ (g)| ≤ c1 exp
( −c2 ∥g∥2) and ∥π (ψ, u, 𝑢)∥ ≤ 𝑐1 (u) exp ( −𝑐2 ∥ 𝑢∥2) for all g ∈ G, on semisimple Lie group with the finite center.
Keywords: Hausdorff groups, Heisenberg principle, uncertainty principle, Fourier transform, Wigner function, compact
group, Peter-Weyl theorem.
Received: November 24, 2022. Revised: June 16, 2023. Accepted: July 23, 2023. Published: August 28, 2023.
1. Introduction
EQUATIONS
DOI: 10.37394/232021.2023.3.6
Mykola Ivanovich Yaremenko