The Wehrl inequality: the creation of a pure math conjecture

Abstract: In the 1970s, Wehrl first studied what would come to be called Wehrl type inequalities in the context of entropy in quantum mechanics. He conjectured a condition for when this entropy is minimized, and this conjecture was proved shortly thereafter by Lieb, who extended it to a more general context. This gave rise to an interesting area of mathematical research. I will give a historical background and an overview of the main problem

Mathematics

Audience: general audience

Gothenburg PhD seminar

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