Analogues of theorems of Chernoff and Ingham on the Heisenberg group

We prove an analogue of Chernoffs theorem for the Laplacian $ Delta_{mathbb{H}} $ on the Heisenberg group $ mathbb{H}^n.$ As an application, we prove Ingham type theorems for the group Fourier transform on $ mathbb{H}^n $ and also for the spectral projections associated to the sublaplacian.