Analogues of theorems of Chernoff and Ingham on the Heisenberg group

Abstract

We prove an analogue of Chernoff's theorem for the Laplacian $ \Delta_{\mathbb{H}} $ on the Heisenberg group $ \mathbb{H}^n.$ As an application, we prove Ingham type theorems for the group Fourier transform on $ \mathbb{H}^n $ and also for the spectral projections associated to the sublaplacian.