Paley-Wiener theorem
A function vanishes almost everywhere outside an interval
if and only if its Fourier transform
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satisfies
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and is the restriction to the real line of a certain entire analytic function of a complex variable
satisfying
for all
(see [1]). A description of the image of a certain space of functions or generalized functions on a locally compact group under the Fourier transform or under some other injective integral transform is called an analogue of the Paley–Wiener theorem; the most frequently encountered analogues of the Paley–Wiener theorem are a description of the image of the space
of infinitely-differentiable functions of compact support and a description of the image of the space
of rapidly-decreasing infinitely-differentiable functions on a locally compact group
under the Fourier transform on
. Such analogues are known, in particular, for Abelian locally compact groups, for certain connected Lie groups, for certain subalgebras of the algebra
on real semi-simple Lie groups, and also for certain other integral transforms.
References
[1] | N. Wiener, R.E.A.C. Paley, "Fourier transforms in the complex domain" , Amer. Math. Soc. (1934) |
[2] | V.S. Vladimirov, "Generalized functions in mathematical physics" , MIR (1977) (Translated from Russian) |
[3] | I.M. Gel'fand, M.I. Graev, N.Ya. Vilenkin, "Generalized functions" , 5. Integral geometry and representation theory , Acad. Press (1966) (Translated from Russian) |
[4] | D.P. Zhelobenko, "Harmonic analysis of functions on semi-simple complex Lie groups" , Moscow (1974) (In Russian) |
[5] | W. Rudin, "Functional analysis" , McGraw-Hill (1973) |
Comments
Let with
. Then the Fourier transform
of
can be extended to an entire analytic function on
satisfying: for any integer
there is a constant
such that for all
,
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Conversely, let be an entire function which satisfies (*) (replacing
with
), for some
. Then there exists a
with
and
.
References
[a1] | F. Trèves, "Topological vectorspaces, distributions and kernels" , Acad. Press (1967) |
[a2] | G. Warner, "Harmonic analysis on semi-simple Lie groups" , II , Springer (1972) |
[a3] | S. Helgason, "Groups and geometric analysis" , Acad. Press (1984) pp. Chapt. II, Sect. 4 |
[a4] | Y. Katznelson, "An introduction to harmonic analysis" , Dover, reprint (1976) |
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