Solution

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In the position representation, multiplies by and . Acting on an arbitrary differentiable test function shows the commutator explicitly:
Therefore , whose expectation value is in every normalized state in the relevant domains. The Robertson uncertainty principle gives
This is a lower bound, not a claim that every state saturates it.

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