Analogues of theorems of Chernoff and Ingham on the Heisenberg group

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Abstract: We prove an analogue of Chernoff's theorem for the Laplacian DeltamathbbH on the Heisenberg group mathbbHn. As an application, we prove Ingham type theorems for the group Fourier transform on mathbbHn and also for the spectral projections associated to the sublaplacian.


The following theorem proved by \textit{P. R. Chernoff} [Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 81, 637--646 (1975; Zbl 0304.47032)] is a higher dimensional analogue of the Denjoy-Carleman theorem on \(\mathbb{R}^n\) which characterizes quasi-analytic functions: Let \(f\) be a smooth function on \(\mathbb{R}^n\). Assume that \(\Delta^m f \in L^2(\mathbb{R}^n)\) for all \(m \in\mathbb{N}\) and \(\sum_{m=1}^{\infty}\|\Delta^m f\|_{2}^{-\frac{1}{2m}} =\infty\). If \(f\) and all its partial derivatives vanish at a point \(a \in \mathbb{R}^n\), then \(f\) is identically zero. The authors prove an analogue of Chernoff's theorem for the Laplacian \(\Delta_H\) on the Heisenberg group \(H_n\). Also they apply this theorem to prove Ingham type theorems for the group Fourier transform on \(H_n\) and also for the spectral projections associated to the sublaplacian.











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