Functional Ghobber-Jaming Uncertainty Principle
K. Mahesh Krishna
TL;DR
This work formulates a Banach space analogue of the Ghobber-Jaming finite dimensional uncertainty principle by introducing $p$-orthonormal bases in a finite dimensional Banach space $\mathcal{X}$ and establishing a quantitative bound under a cross coherence condition. The main result, the Functional Ghobber-Jaming Uncertainty Principle, states that for all $x\in\mathcal{X}$ one has $\|x\| \le \left(1+ \dfrac{1}{1- o(M)^{1/q} o(N)^{1/p} \max_{j,k} |g_k(\tau_j)|}\right) \left[\left(\sum_{j\in M^c} |f_j(x)|^p\right)^{1/p} + \left(\sum_{k\in N^c} |g_k(x)|^p\right)^{1/p}\right]$, and in particular if $x$ is supported on $M$ and $N$ in the respective expansions then $x=0$. The approach leverages an invertible isometry $V$ linking the two $p$-orthonormal bases and analyzes projection operators to connect the tail norms, with a Hilbert space specialization recovering the classical Ghobber-Jaming inequality and discussions of sharpness and extensions to $1$- and $\infty$-orthonormal bases as well as to $p$-Schauder frames. The result provides a concrete finite dimensional Banach space uncertainty bound that generalizes prior linear algebra uncertainty principles to broader normed settings.
Abstract
Let $(\{f_j\}_{j=1}^n, \{τ_j\}_{j=1}^n)$ and $(\{g_k\}_{k=1}^n, \{ω_k\}_{k=1}^n)$ be two p-orthonormal bases for a finite dimensional Banach space $\mathcal{X}$. Let $M,N\subseteq \{1, \dots, n\}$ be such that \begin{align*} o(M)^\frac{1}{q}o(N)^\frac{1}{p}< \frac{1}{\displaystyle \max_{1\leq j,k\leq n}|g_k(τ_j) |}, \end{align*} where $q$ is the conjugate index of $p$. Then for all $x \in \mathcal{X}$, we show that \begin{align}\label{FGJU} (1) \quad \quad \quad \quad \|x\|\leq \left(1+\frac{1}{1-o(M)^\frac{1}{q}o(N)^\frac{1}{p}\displaystyle\max_{1\leq j,k\leq n}|g_k(τ_j)|}\right)\left[\left(\sum_{j\in M^c}|f_j(x)|^p\right)^\frac{1}{p}+\left(\sum_{k\in N^c}|g_k(x) |^p\right)^\frac{1}{p}\right]. \end{align} We call Inequality (1) as \textbf{Functional Ghobber-Jaming Uncertainty Principle}. Inequality (1) improves the uncertainty principle obtained by Ghobber and Jaming \textit{[Linear Algebra Appl., 2011]}.
