Estimates of the local convergence rate of spectral expansions for even-order differential operators (Q376386)

The authors consider the convergence rate of biorthogonal series expansions of functions in systems of root functions of the operator \(L\) generated by the differential expression \[ \frac{d^{2n}}{dx^{2n}}+\sum_{l=1}^{2n}p_{l}(x)\frac{d^{2n-l}}{dx^{2n-l}},\;\;\;x\in G=\left( 0,1\right) ,\;\;\;n>1, \] \[ p_{1}\in L^{s}\left( G,C\right) ,\;\;\;s>1,\;\;\;p_{l}\in L\left( G,C\right) ,\quad l=2,\dots ,2n. \] The root functions of \(L\) (the eigenfunctions and the associated functions) are defined in generalized sense. These expansions are compared with trigonometric Fourier series expansions of the same functions in the integral or uniform metric on an arbitrary compact set of the main interval as well as on the entire interval. The dependence of the equiconvergence rate of these expansions on the distance from the compact set to the boundary of the interval, on the coefficients of the differential expression, and on the existence of infinitely many associated functions in the system of root functions is studied.