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Heisenberg-Pauli-Weyl Uncertainty Principle for the Spherical Mean Operator

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The Heisenberg-Pauli-Weyl inequality is established for the Fourier transform associated with the spherical mean operator. Also, a generalization of this inequality is proved. Next, a local uncertainty principle is checked.

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Msehli, N., Rachdi, L.T. Heisenberg-Pauli-Weyl Uncertainty Principle for the Spherical Mean Operator. Mediterr. J. Math. 7, 169–194 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00009-010-0044-1

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