Abstract
We consider a singular differential-difference operator Λ on the real line which generalizes the one-dimensional Cherednik operator. We construct transmutation operators between Λ and first-order regular differential-difference operators on ℝ. We exploit these transmutation operators, firstly to establish a Paley–Wiener theorem for the Fourier transform associated with Λ, and secondly to introduce a generalized convolution on ℝ tied to Λ.