On the eigenfunction expansion of a piecewise smooth function. (Q1565950)

The author studies in \(L_2(\mathbb{R}^2)\) homogeneous elliptic operators \[ A(D)= \sum_{|\alpha|= m} a_\alpha D^\alpha \] of order \(m\) with constant coefficients. To every function \(f\in L_2(\mathbb{R}^2)\) the eigenfunction expansion \[ E_\lambda f(x)= (2\pi)^{-1} \int_{A(\xi)< \lambda} \widehat f(\xi) e^{ix\xi}\,d\xi\tag{\(*\)} \] is associated, where \[ \widehat f(\xi)= (2\pi)^{-1} \int_{\mathbb{R}^2} f(x) e^{ix\xi}\,dx. \] Among others, the following Theorem 1 is proved. For any piecewise smooth function with smooth corresponding contour \(S\), the eigenfunction expansion \((*)\) converges uniformly on each compact set \(K\subset\mathbb{R}^2\setminus S\).