The full Bochner theorem on real reductive groups

Abstract

The major results of Barker $[3.],$ leading to the spherical Bochner theorem and its (spherical) extension, were made possible through the spherical transform theory of Trombi-Varadarajan $[14.]$ and were greatly controlled by the non-availability of the full (non-spherical) Harish-Chandra Fourier transform theory on a general connected semisimple Lie group, $G.$ Sequel to the recently announced results of Oyadare $[13.],$ where the full image of the Schwartz-type algebras, $\mathcal{C}^{p}(G),$ under the full Fourier transform is computed to be $\mathcal{C}^{p}(\widehat{G}):=\{(\widehat{\xi_{1}})^{-1}\cdot h\cdot (\widehat{\xi_{1}})^{-1}:h\in\bar{\mathcal{Z}}({\mathfrak{F}}^{\epsilon})\}$ with $\bar{\mathcal{Z}}({\mathfrak{F}}^{\epsilon})$ given as the Trombi-Varadarajan image of $\mathcal{C}^{p}(G//K),$ the present paper now gives the full Bochner theorem for $G$ by lifting the results of $[3.]$ to full non-spherical status. An extension of the full Bochner theorem to all of $\mathcal{C}^{p}(G),$ $1\leq p\leq2,$ is established. It is also conjectured that every positive-definite distribution $T$ on $G$ which corresponds to a Bochner measure $\mu$ on ${\mathfrak{F}}^{\epsilon}$ extends uniquely to an element of $\mathcal{C}^{p}(G)'$ if and only if $T$ can be expressed as a finite sum of derivatives of a class of functions exclusively parameterized by members of ${\mathfrak{F}}^{\epsilon}$ and $supp\; (\mu)\subset{\mathfrak{F}}^{\epsilon},$ with $\epsilon=(\frac{2}{p})-1$ for all $1\leq p\leq2.$ This gives the non-spherical abstract version of the extension theorem for any positive-definite distribution on $G.$ Our results confirm the one-to-one correspondence between tempered invariant positive-definite distributions and the Bochner measures of the case $SU(1,1)/\{\pm1\}$ (as computed in Barker $[5.]$) for all $G.$