Around theorems of Ingham-type regarding decay of Fourier transform on \(\mathbb{R}^n, \mathbb{T}^n\) and two step nilpotent Lie groups (Q2272440)

In harmonic analysis it is well-known that if the Fourier transform of an integrable function on the real line is very rapidly decreasing, then the function cannot vanish on a nonempty open set unless it vanishes identically. In this paper, the authors generalize and prove on the \(n\)-dimensional Euclidean space, the \(n\)-dimensional torus and connected, simply connected two step nilpotent Lie groups some classical results on this subject, due to Ingham, Levinson and Paley-Wiener between 1934 and 1940, that characterized the existence of nonzero functions supported on certain subsets of the real line in terms of the pointwise decay of the Fourier transforms. They also prove several results related to the unique continuation property of solutions to the Schrödinger equation. Indeed, they show, with the same spirit of them, that the results of Ingham, Levinson and Paley-Wiener can also be related to the unique continuation property of solutions to the initial value problem for the time-dependent Schrödinger equation on \(\mathbb{R}^n\) and a subclass of connected, simply connected two step nilpotent Lie groups.