• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.787-805
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• 2023

Let (Ω, µ) be a measure space and {τ_α}_α∈Ω be a normalized continuous Bessel family for a finite dimensional Hilbert space 𝓗 of dimension d. If the diagonal ∆ := {(α, α) : α ∈ Ω} is measurable in the measure space Ω × Ω, then we show that $$\sup\limits_{{\alpha},{\beta}{\in}{\Omega},{\alpha}{\neq}{\beta}}\,{\mid}{\langle}{\tau}_{\alpha},\,{\tau}_{\beta}{\rangle}{\mid}^{2m}\,{\geq}\,{\frac{1}{({\mu}{\times}{\mu})(({\Omega}{\times}{\Omega}{\backslash}{\Delta})}\;\[\frac{{\mu}({\Omega})^2}{\({d+m-1 \atop m}\)}-({\mu}{\times}{\mu})({\Delta})\],\;{\forall}m{\in}{\mathbb{N}}.$$ This improves 48 years old celebrated result of Welch [41]. We introduce the notions of continuous cross correlation and frame potential of Bessel family and give applications of continuous Welch bounds to these concepts. We also introduce the notion of continuous Grassmannian frames.