Between the Paley-Wiener theorem and the Bochner tube theorem
We present the classical Paley-Wiener-Schwartz theorem [1] on the Laplace transform of a compactly supported distribution in a new framework which arises naturally in the study of the Mellin transformation. In particular, sufficient conditions for a function to be the Mellin (Laplace) transform of a compactly supported distribution are given in the form resembling the Bochner tube theorem [2].