An Uncertainty Principle of Paley and Wiener on Euclidean Motion Group

Abstract

A classical result due to Paley and Wiener characterizes the existence of a non-zero function in $L^2(\mathbb{R})$, supported on a half line, in terms of the decay of its Fourier transform. In this paper we prove an analogue of this result for compactly supported continuous functions on the Euclidean motion group $M(n)$. We also relate this result to a uniqueness property of solutions to the initial value problem for time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation on $M(n)$.