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Anisotropic uncertainty principles for metaplectic operators

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Authors: Elena Cordero, Gianluca Giacchi, Edoardo Pucci

Year

2026

Paper ID

3447

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Preprint

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We establish anisotropic uncertainty principles (UPs) for general metaplectic operators acting on L2\(mathbb{R}d\), including degenerate cases associated with symplectic matrices whose B-block has nontrivial kernel. In this setting, uncertainty phenomena are shown to be intrinsically directional and confined to an effective phase-space dimension given by rank(B). First, we prove sharp Heisenberg-Pauli-Weyl type inequalities involving only the directions corresponding to ker(B)perp, with explicit lower bounds expressed in terms of geometric quantities associated with the underlying symplectic transformation. We also provide a complete characterization of all extremizers, which turn out to be partially Gaussian functions with free behavior along the null directions of B. Building on this framework, we extend the Beurling-Hörmander theorem to the metaplectic setting, obtaining a precise polynomial-Gaussian structure for functions satisfying suitable exponential integrability conditions involving both f and its metaplectic transform. Finally, we prove a Morgan-type (or Gel'fand--Shilov type) uncertainty principle for metaplectic operators, identifying a sharp threshold separating triviality from density of admissible functions and showing that this threshold is invariant under metaplectic transformations. Our results recover the classical Fourier case and free metaplectic transformations as special instances, and reveal the geometric and anisotropic nature of uncertainty principles in the presence of symplectic degeneracies.

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