A generalization of the Paley–Wiener theorem for Mellin transforms and metric characterization of function spaces

We characterize the function space whose elements have a Mellin transform with exponential decay at infinity. This result can be seen as a generalization of the Paley–Wiener theorem for Mellin transforms. As a byproduct in a similar spirit, we also characterize spaces of functions whose distances from Mellin–Paley–Wiener spaces have a prescribed asymptotic behavior. This leads to Mellin–Sobolev type spaces of fractional order.