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We use the analytic tools such as the energy, and the Laplacians defined by Kigami for a class of post-critically finite (pcf) fractals which includes the Sierpinski gasket (SG), to establish some uncertainty relations for functions defined on these fractals. Although the existence of localized eigenfunctions on some of these fractals precludes an uncertainty principle in the vein of Heisenberg’s inequality, we prove in this article that a function that is localized in space must have high energy, and hence have high frequency components. We also extend our result to functions defined on products of pcf fractals, thereby obtaining an uncertainty principle on a particular type of non-pcf fractal.
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Okoudjou, K., Strichartz, R. Weak Uncertainty Principles on Fractals. J Fourier Anal Appl 11, 315–331 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00041-005-4032-y
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00041-005-4032-y