HARDY’S THEOREM FOR GABOR TRANSFORM

Abstract

Hardy’s uncertainty principle for the Gabor transform is proved for locally compact abelian groups having noncompact identity component and groups of the form$\mathbb{R}^{n}\times K$, where$K$is a compact group having irreducible representations of bounded dimension. We also show that Hardy’s theorem fails for a connected nilpotent Lie group$G$which admits a square integrable irreducible representation. Further, a similar conclusion is made for groups of the form$G\times D$, where$D$is a discrete group.