Harmonic Analysis of Tempered Distributions on Semisimple Lie Groups of Real Rank One

Let G be a real semisimple Lie group. Harish-Chandra has defined the Schwartz space, V[G), on G. A tempered distribution on G is a continuous linear functional on R G ) . If the real rank of G equals one, Harish-Chandra has published a version of the Plancherel formula for I^(G) [3(k), 5241. We restrict the Fourier transform map to %(G), and we compute the image of the space V(G) [Theorem 31. This permits us to develop the theory of harmonic analysis for tempered distributions on G [Theorem 51.