Gelfand transforms of -invariant Schwartz functions on the free group
The spectrum of a Gelfand pair , where is a nilpotent group, can be embedded in a Euclidean space. We prove that in general, the Schwartz functions on the spectrum are the Gelfand transforms of Schwartz -invariant functions on . We also show the converse in the case of the Gelfand pair , where is the free two-step nilpotent Lie group with three generators. This extends recent results for the Heisenberg group.