An analogue of Hardy's theorem for the Harish-Chandra transform (Q1348162)

Hardy's theorem for the Fourier transform asserts that a complex valued measurable function \(f\) on \(R\) and its Fourier transform \(\widehat f\) cannot both be very small. More precisely, if \(f(x)= 0(e^{-ax^2})\) and \(\widehat f(y)= 0(e^{-by^2})\), where \(a,b> 0\), then (i) for \(ab={1\over 4}\), \(f(x)= Ce^{-ax^2}\), (ii) for \(ab>{1\over 4}\), \(f=0\) and (iii) for \(ab<{1\over 4}\), there exist infinitely many linearly independent functions which satisfy the above conditions. Recently Hardy's theorem has been extended to several classes of non-commutative groups. In this paper the author proves analogues of Hardy's theorem for the Harish-Chandra transform for spherical functions on a noncompact semisimple Lie group and the Helgason transform on a Riemannian symmetric space of the noncompact type.