Absolute convergence of series of Fourier coefficients with respect to an orthonormal system (Q1204609)

The paper under review is connected with the absolute convergence of the Fourier coefficients (or that of a subsequence) in terms of the modulus of continuity. S. B. Stechkin proved that for any subsequence \(\{m_ k\}\) of the natural numbers one has \[ \sum_ k(| a_{m_ k} |+| b_{m_ k} |) \leq C\sum{1\over \sqrt k} \omega^{(2)} \left({1 \over m_ k};f \right), \] where \(\omega^{(2)}\) is the \(L^ 2\)-modulus of continuity of \(f\). The author found in an earlier paper that the convergence of the left hand side for every function from the smoothness class \(H^ \omega\) is equivalent to the convergence of \(\sum{1\over \sqrt k} \omega \left({1\over m_ k} \right)\). In the present paper he extends these investigations to the absolute convergence of Fourier series with respect to arbitrary orthonormal systems on [0,1]. In particular, he obtains the complete analogue of the aforementioned result for general orthonormal systems under a mild and natural assumption on the modulus of continuity \(\omega\).