Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 August 2018
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.
The last author is supported by UGC under joint UGC-CSIR Junior Research Fellowship (Ref. No. 21/12/2014(ii)EU-V).