Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
Our principal result deals with a function φ defined on the ‘non-negative half’ X+ of a discrete ordered group X, the dual of a compact Abelian connected group G. Suppose φ vanishes outside a countable set S = {χ1, χ2 …} and has the following property: for every t in a set 0 ⊂ (0, 1) of positive Lebesgue measure, the function on X+ defined to be 0 off S and to be rn(t)φ(χn) for χ = χn, where rn is the nth Rademacher function, is the restriction to X+ of a Fourier–Stieltjes transform. We conclude that φ ∈ ℓ2(X+).