On almost everywhere convergence and divergence of Marcinkiewicz-like means of integrable functions with respect to the two-dimensional Walsh system (Q657440)

Let \(f\in L^1([0,1)^2)\) and denote by \(S_{k,\ell}f\) the rectangular partial sums of the expansion of \(f\) with respect to the two-dimensional Walsh-Paley system. The Marcinkiewicz-like means of \(f\) are defined by \[ t^\alpha_n f:={1\over n} \sum^{n-1}_{k=0} S_{\alpha(|n|,k)}f,\quad n= 1,2,\dots, \] where \(\alpha: \mathbb{N}^2\to \mathbb{N}^2\) and \(|n|\) is the lower integer part of the binary logarithm of \(n\). In his seminal paper [Ann. Soc. Polon. Math. 16, 85--96 (1937); cf. \textit{J. Marcinkiewicz} and \textit{A. Zygmund}, Fundam. Math. 28, 309--335 (1936; Zbl 0016.20502; JFM 63.0202.01)], \textit{J. Marcinkiewicz} investigated the case when \(\alpha(|n|,k):= (k,k)\). The present author gives a kind of necessary and sufficient condition in order that the limit \(t^\alpha_n f\to f\) exist almost everywhere for every \(f\in L^1([0,1)^2)\).