陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「The uncertainty principle」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

A recurring theme in mathematics is that of duality : a mathematical object can either be described internally (or in physical space , or locally ), by describing what physically consists of (or what kind of maps exist into ), or externally (or in frequency space , or globally ), by describing what globally interacts or resonates with (or what kind of maps exist out of ). These two fundamentally opposed perspectives on the object are often dual to each other in various ways:

I have discussed a fair number of these examples in previous blog posts (indeed, most of the links above are to my own blog). 在这类讨论里, I would like to discuss the uncertainty principle , that describes the dual relationship between physical space and frequency space. There are various concrete formalisations of this principle, most famously the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the Hardy uncertainty principle – but in many situations, it is the heuristic formulation of the

已知结果和反例

I think of all of the above (closely related) assertions as being instances of “the uncertainty principle”, but it seems difficult to combine them all into a single unified assertion, even at the heuristic level; they seem to be better arranged as a cloud of tightly interconnected assertions, each of which is reinforced by several of the others. The famous inequality is at the centre of this cloud, but is by no means the only aspect of it.

The uncertainty principle (as interpreted in the above broad sense) is one of the most fundamental principles in harmonic analysis (and more specifically, to the subfield of time-frequency analysis ), second only to the Fourier inversion formula (and more generally, Plancherel’s theorem ) in importance; understanding this principle is a key piece of intuition in the subject that one has to internalise before one can really get to grips with this subject (and also with closely

证明或构造的主线

— 1. An informal foundation for the uncertainty principle —

Many of the manifestations of the uncertainty principle can be heuristically derived from the following informal heuristic:

阅读时建议盯住的点

Heuristic 1 (Phase heuristic) If the phase of a complex exponential fluctuates by less than for in some nice domain (e.g. a convex set, or more generally an approximate subgroup), then the phase behaves as if it were constant on . If instead the phase fluctuates by much more than , then should oscillate and exhibit significant cancellation. The more the phase fluctuates, the more oscillation and cancellation becomes present.

For instance, according to this heuristic, on an interval in the real line, the linear phase at a given frequency behaves like a constant when , but oscillates significantly when . This is visually plausible if one graphs the real and imaginary parts , . For now, 下面会 take this principle as axiomatic, without further justification, and without further elaboration as to what vague terms such as “behaves as if” or mean.

值得单独记下的条目

• Pontryagin subgroup duality A subgroup of a locally compact abelian group can be described either by generators in , or generators in the orthogonal complement . One of the fundamental connections between the two is the Poisson summation fo
• A function which is restricted to high frequencies is oscillatory at fine scales, but is negligible at coarse scales. Conversely, a function which is oscillatory at fine scales will be almost entirely restricted to high frequencies.
• Projecting a function to low frequencies corresponds to averaging out (or spreading out) that function at fine scales, leaving only the coarse scale behaviour.
• Projecting a frequency to high frequencies corresponds to removing the averaged coarse scale behaviour, leaving only the fine scale oscillation.
• To control the coarse scale (or global) averaged behaviour of a function, one essentially only needs to know the low frequency components of the function (and vice versa).
• To control the fine scale (or local) oscillation of a function, one only needs to know the high frequency components of the function (and vice versa).
• Localising a function to a region of physical space will cause its Fourier transform (or inverse Fourier transform) to resemble a plane wave on every dual region of frequency space.
• Averaging a function along certain spatial directions or at certain scales will cause the Fourier transform to become localised to the dual directions and scales. The smoother the averaging, the sharper the localisation.

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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