The local convergence of biorthogonal series related to differential operators with nonsmooth coefficients. I (Q5951179)

Known results on the convergence rate of Fourier trigonometric series may be transferred to the case of any bi-orthogonal expansion via the so-called equiconvergence theorem. In such a setting, the author contemplates an nonselfadjoint ordinary differential operator \(L\) of order \(2n\) and its so-called root functions (i.e., eigenfunctions and the associated functions). Knowing that the systems are bi-orthogonal to these functions need not necessarily be related to the adjoint operator (the existence of which need not be guaranteed), the author continues his older analysis of the special case \(n=1\) and proves several auxiliary lemmas and, partially, his main theorem on the equiconvergence rate of the bi-orthogonal expansions in question. Several interesting aspects of this type of problems are pointed out in the introduction, and a few key ingredients of the proof (and, in particular, an overall theorem on the local basis property and some necessary estimates on integrals) are deferred to the part two of the series.