Paley-Wiener theorems for the -spherical transform: an overview

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Abstract: The aim of this article is to give an overview of several types of Paley-Wiener theorems occuring in harmonic analysis related to symmetric spaces. This will serve as a motivation for the introduction of the Theta-spherical functions, the correspondint Theta-spherical Fourier transform, and the Paley-Wiener theorem for this transform. Up to now such a theorem has only been proven in very special cases, and still, its formulation and proof are very technical. In this paper we do not go into details of the proofs, but present an overview which explains the different examples which have inspired and motivated the theory of Theta-spherical functions.


This carefully written survey introduces the reader to the theory of the \(\Theta\)-spherical transform. This theory provides a unified approach to several generalizations of harmonic analysis on Riemannian symmetric spaces such as the Heckman-Opdam theory and harmonic analysis on noncompactly causal symmetric spaces. As in Heckman and Opdam's theory, the \(\Theta\)-spherical transform is defined in terms of a Euclidean space \(\mathbf a\), a root system \(\Sigma\) on \({\mathbf a}^*\) and a multiplicity function \(m: \Sigma\to \mathbb C\) but it depends also on a subset \(\Theta\) of the set \(\Pi\) of positive simple roots of \(\Sigma\). The authors focus on the presentation of Paley-Wiener type theorems, that is, on the description of the image, under the transform, of compactly supported functions. After an overview of results for Riemannian symmetric spaces, for the Opdam transform and for the spherical Fourier-Laplace transform on noncompactly causal symmetric spaces, the authors outline a proof of the Paley-Wiener theorem for the \(\Theta\)-spherical transform with even multiplicity function \(m: \Sigma\to 2{\mathbb N}_0\) when \(\Sigma\) is of type \(A_n\) and \(| \Pi| -| \Theta| \leq1\). The relevance of this particular case is motivated through an analysis of \(K_\varepsilon\) symmetric spaces with even multiplicity function. For further results and details the reader is referred to an appropriate bibliography.











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