The aim of this paper is to prove new uncertainty principles for integral operators with bounded kernel for which there is a Plancherel Theorem. The first of these results is an extension of Faris’s local uncertainty principle which states that if a nonzero function $f\in L²({ℝ}^d,\mu )$ is highly localized near a single point then (f) cannot be concentrated in a set of finite measure. The second result extends the Benedicks-Amrein-Berthier uncertainty principle and states that a nonzero function $f\in L²({ℝ}^d,\mu )$ and its integral...

In this survey, we present various forms of the uncertainty principle (Hardy, Heisenberg, Benedicks...). We further give a new interpretation of the uncertainty principles as a statement about the time-frequency localization of elements of an orthonormal basis, which improves previous unpublished results of H. Shapiro.Finally, we reformulate some uncertainty principles in terms of properties of the free heat and shrödinger equations.