Convergence of double Fourier series with coefficients of generalized bounded variation (Q581796)

Let \(f(x,y)\) be complex-valued and \(2\pi\)-periodic in each variable, L- integrable over \(T^ 2:=\{(x,y)\in {\mathbb{R}}^ 2| x,y\in [- \pi,\pi)\}\), and let \(c_{jk}(j,k\in {\mathbb{Z}})\) be the double Fourier coefficients of \(f\). It is shown that if \(\{c_{jk}\}\) satisfies certain bounded-variation-type conditions and if \(f\in L_ 1 \log^+L(T^ 2)\) then the double Fourier series of \(f\) converges pointwise almost everywhere to \(f\). If we require only \(f\in L_ 1(T^ 2)\) there is pointwise convergence a.e. but the unrestricted (Pringsheim) convergence is replaced by a restricted convergence (in the partial sums \(s_{mn}\) of the double Fourier series we require m,n to tend to \(\infty\) in such a way that m/n and n/m remain bounded). However, if \(f\in L_ 1(T^ 2)\), \(c_{jk}\) satisfies the same conditions as before, and \(0<r<1\), it is shown that \(\lim_{m,n\to \infty}\| s_{mn}(f)-f\|_ r=0,\) where \(\| \cdot \|_ r\) denotes the \(L_ r(T^ 2)\) pseudo-norm. Additional results are obtained by postulating alternative hypotheses on \(\{c_{jk}\}\). The basic tools in the proofs are the use of Cesàro (C,1,1) means and generalized de la Vallée-Poussin means, for double series, and a number of lemmas which include earlier work of Fejér, Jessen, Marcinkiewicz, Zygmund.