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In radar analysis there exists an analogue of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics stands here for the quantum-mechanical description, at a given instant of time, of a non-relativistic particle. These uncertainty principles suggest that there should exist a common mathematical structure behind both quantum mechanics and the theory of signals. It is the aim of the present article to establish that the concept of real Heisenberg nilpotent group Ã(ℝ) lies at the foundations of both of these fields. The crucial point is to endow the time-frequency plane ℝ ⊕ ℝ with the structure of a two dimensional real symplectic vector space so that it gets symplectomorphic to the tangent plane to the “Schrodinger coadjoint orbit” at the point 1 in the Kirillov orbit picture for the unitary dual of Ã(ℝ). Various applications of this geometric relationship between signal theory and nil potent harmonic analysis are pointed out.
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Schempp, W. (1984). Radar Ambiguity Functions and the Linear Schrödinger Representation. In: Butzer, P.L., Stens, R.L., Sz.-Nagy, B. (eds) Anniversary Volume on Approximation Theory and Functional Analysis. ISNM 65: International Series of Numerical Mathematics / Internationale Schriftenreihe zur Numerischen Mathematik / Série internationale d’Analyse numérique, vol 65. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5432-0_41
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