1 Introduction
Let \(N_{+}\) denote the set of positive integers, and let \(N:=N_{+} \cup \{0\}\). Let \(m:= ( m_{0},m_{1},\ldots ) \) be a sequence of positive integers not less than 2. Denote by \(Z_{m_{k}}:=\{0,1,\ldots,m _{k}-1\}\) the additive group of integers modulo \(m_{k}\). Define the group \(G_{m}\) as the complete direct product of the groups \(Z_{m_{j}}\) with the product of the discrete topologies of \(Z_{m_{j}}\).
The direct product of the measures
$$ \mu _{k} \bigl( \{j\} \bigr) :=\frac{1}{m_{k}} \quad ( j\in Z_{m_{k}} ) $$
is the Haar measure on
\(G_{m}\) with
\(\mu ( G_{m} ) =1\). If the sequence
m is bounded, then
\(G_{m}\) is called a bounded Vilenkin group. In this paper, we consider only bounded Vilenkin groups. The elements of
\(G_{m}\) can be represented by sequences
\(x:= ( x_{0},x _{1},\ldots,x_{j},\ldots ) \) (
\(x_{j}\in Z_{m_{j}} \)). The group operation + in
\(G_{m}\) is given by
$$ x+y= \bigl( ( x_{0}+y_{0} ) \operatorname{mod} m_{0},\ldots, ( x_{k}+y_{k} ) \operatorname{mod} m_{k},\ldots \bigr) $$
for
\(x:= ( x_{0},\ldots,x_{k},\ldots ) \) and
\(y:= ( y_{0},\ldots,y _{k},\ldots ) \in G_{m}\). The inverse of + will be denoted by −.
It is easy to give a base for the neighborhoods of
\(G_{m}\):
$$ \begin{gathered} I_{0} ( x ) :=G_{m}, \\ I_{n} ( x ) :=\{y\in G_{m}|y_{0}=x_{0}, \ldots,y _{n-1}=x_{n-1}\} \end{gathered} $$
for
\(x \in G_{m}\) and
\(n \in N\). Define
\(I_{n}:=I_{n} ( 0 ) \) for
\(n\in N_{+}\). Set
\(e_{n}:= ( 0,\ldots,0,1,0,\ldots ) \in G_{m}\), where the
nth coordinate of which is 1, and the rest are zeros (
\(n\in N \)).
We define the so-called generalized number system based on m as follows: \(M_{0}:=1\), \(M_{k+1}:=m_{k}M_{k}\) (\(k\in N \)). Then every \(n \in N\) can be uniquely expressed as \(n=\sum_{j=0} ^{\infty }n_{j}M_{j}\), where \(n_{j} \in Z_{m_{j}}\) (\(j \in N_{+} \)), and only a finite number of \(n_{j}\) differ from zero. We also use the following notation: \(\vert n \vert :=\max \{k\in N:n_{k}\neq 0\}\) (i.e., \(M_{|n|}\leq n< M_{|n|+1}\), \(n\neq 0\)). For \(x \in G_{m}\), we denote \(\vert x \vert :=\sum_{j=0}^{ \infty }\frac{x_{j}}{M_{j+1}}\) (\(x_{j}\in Z_{m_{j}} \)).
Next, we introduce on
\(G_{m}\) an orthonormal system, which is called the Vilenkin system. First, we define the complex-valued functions
\(r_{k} ( x ) :G_{m}\rightarrow C\), the generalized Rademacher functions, as follows:
$$ r_{k}(x):=\exp \frac{2\pi ix_{k}}{m_{k}} \quad \bigl( i^{2}=-1,x\in G_{m},k\in N \bigr) . $$
Now we define the Vilenkin system
\(\psi := ( \psi _{n}:n\in N ) \) on
\(G_{m}\) as
$$ \psi _{n} ( x ) :=\prod_{k=0}^{\infty }r_{k}^{n_{k}} ( x ) \quad ( n\in N ) . $$
In particular, if \(m=2\), then we call this system the Walsh–Paley system. Each \(\psi _{n}\) is a character of \(G_{m}\), and all characters of \(G_{m}\) are of this norm. Moreover, \(\psi _{n} ( -x ) =\bar{ \psi }_{n} ( x ) \).
The Dirichlet kernels are defined by
$$ D_{n}:=\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}\psi _{k} \quad ( n\in N_{+} ) . $$
Recall that (see [
20] or [
23])
$$ D_{M_{n}} ( x ) = \textstyle\begin{cases} M_{n}& \text{if }x \in I_{n}, \\ 0&\text{if }x\notin I_{n}. \end{cases} $$
(1)
The Vilenkin system is orthonormal and complete in
\(L^{1} ( G _{m} ) \) (see [
1]).
Next, we introduce some notation from the theory of two-dimensional Vilenkin system. Let m̃ be a sequence like m. The relation between the sequences \(( \tilde{m}_{n} ) \) and \(( \tilde{M} _{n}) \) is the same as between sequences \(( m_{n} ) \) and \((M_{n}) \). The group \(G_{m}\times G_{\tilde{m}}\) is called a two-dimensional Vilenkin group. The normalized Haar measure is denoted by μ as in the one-dimensional case. We also suppose that \(m=\tilde{m}\) and \(G_{m}\times G_{\tilde{m}}=G_{m}^{2}\).
The norm of the space
\(L^{p} ( G_{m}^{2} ) \) is defined by
$$ \Vert f \Vert _{p}:= \biggl( \int _{G_{m}^{2}} \bigl\vert f ( x,y ) \bigr\vert ^{p}\,d \mu ( x,y ) \biggr) ^{1/p} \quad ( 1\leq p< \infty ) . $$
Denote by \(C ( G_{m}^{2} ) \) the class of continuous functions on the group \(G_{m}^{2}\) endowed with the supremum norm.
For brevity in notation, we write \(L^{\infty } ( G_{m}^{2} ) \) instead of \(C ( G_{m}^{2} ) \).
The two-dimensional Fourier coefficients, the rectangular partial sums of the Fourier series, and the Dirichlet kernels with respect to the two-dimensional Vilenkin system are defined as follows:
$$ \begin{gathered} \widehat{f} ( n_{1},n_{2} ) := \int _{G_{m}^{2}}f ( x,y ) \bar{\psi }_{n_{1}} ( x ) \bar{\psi }_{n_{2}} ( y ) \,d\mu ( x,y ) , \\ S_{n_{1},n_{2}} ( x,y,f ) :=\sum_{k_{1}=0}^{n_{1}-1} \sum_{k_{2}=0}^{n_{2}-1}\widehat{f} ( k_{1},k_{2} ) \psi _{k_{1}} ( x ) \psi _{k_{2}} ( y ) , \\ D_{n_{1},n_{2}} ( x,y ) :=D_{n_{1}} ( x ) D_{n_{2}} ( y ) , \end{gathered} $$
Denote
$$ \begin{gathered} S_{n}^{ ( 1 ) } ( x,y,f ) :=\sum _{l=0}^{n-1} \widehat{f} ( l,y ) \bar{\psi }_{l} ( x ) , \\ S_{m}^{ ( 2 ) } ( x,y,f ) :=\sum_{r=0}^{m-1} \widehat{f} ( x,r ) \bar{\psi }_{r} ( y ) , \end{gathered} $$
where
$$ \widehat{f} ( l,y ) = \int _{G_{m}}f ( x,y ) \psi _{l} ( x ) \,d\mu ( x ) $$
and
$$ \widehat{f} ( x,r ) = \int _{G_{m}}f ( x,y ) \psi _{r} ( y ) \,d\mu ( y ) . $$
The
\((C,-\alpha )\) means of the double Vilenkin–Fourier series are defined as follows:
$$ \sigma _{n}^{-\alpha } ( f,x,y ) = \frac{1}{A_{n-1}^{-\alpha }}\sum _{j=1}^{n}A_{n-j}^{-\alpha -1}S _{j,j} ( f,x,y ) , $$
where
$$ A_{0}^{\alpha }=1, \qquad A_{n}^{\alpha }= \frac{ ( \alpha +1 ) \cdots ( \alpha +n ) }{n!}. $$
It is well known that (see [
28])
$$\begin{aligned}& A_{n}^{\alpha }=\sum_{k=0}^{n}A_{k}^{\alpha -1}, \end{aligned}$$
(2)
$$\begin{aligned}& A_{n}^{\alpha }-A_{n-1}^{\alpha }=A_{n}^{\alpha -1}, \end{aligned}$$
(3)
and
$$ c_{1}(\alpha )n^{\alpha }\leq A_{n}^{\alpha }\leq c_{2} (\alpha )n ^{\alpha }, $$
(4)
where positive constants
\(c_{1}\) and
\(c_{2}\) depend on
α.
The dyadic partial moduli of continuity of a function
\(f\in L^{p} ( G_{m}^{2} ) \) in the
\(L^{p}\)-norm are defined by
$$ \omega _{1} \biggl( f,\frac{1}{M_{n}} \biggr) _{p}=\sup _{u\in I_{n}} \bigl\Vert f ( \cdot +u,\cdot ) -f ( \cdot ,\cdot ) \bigr\Vert _{p} $$
and
$$ \omega _{2} \biggl( f,\frac{1}{M_{n}} \biggr) _{p}=\sup _{v\in I_{n}} \bigl\Vert f ( \cdot ,\cdot +v ) -f ( \cdot ,\cdot ) \bigr\Vert _{p}, $$
whereas the dyadic mixed modulus of continuity is defined as follows:
$$ \begin{gathered} \omega _{1,2} \biggl( f,\frac{1}{M_{n}}, \frac{1}{M_{m}} \biggr) _{p} \\ \quad =\sup_{ ( u,v ) \in I_{n}\times I_{m}} \bigl\Vert f ( \cdot +u,\cdot +v ) -f ( \cdot +u,\cdot ) -f ( \cdot ,\cdot +v ) +f ( \cdot ,\cdot ) \bigr\Vert _{p}. \end{gathered} $$
It is clear that
$$ \omega _{1,2} \biggl( f,\frac{1}{M_{n}},\frac{1}{M_{m}} \biggr) _{p} \leq \omega _{1} \biggl( f,\frac{1}{M_{n}} \biggr) _{p}+\omega _{2} \biggl( f,\frac{1}{M _{m}} \biggr) _{p}. $$
The dyadic total modulus of continuity is defined by
$$ \omega \biggl( f,\frac{1}{M_{n}} \biggr) _{p}= \sup _{ ( u,v ) \in I_{n}\times I_{n}} \bigl\Vert f ( \cdot +u,\cdot +v ) -f ( \cdot ,\cdot ) \bigr\Vert _{p}. $$
The problems of summability of partial sums and Cesàro means for Walsh–Fourier series were studied in [
2,
13‐
19,
21,
22,
25,
26].
The convergence issue of Fejér (and Cesàro) means on the Walsh and Vilenkin groups for unbounded case were studied in [
3‐
11].
In his monograph [
27], Zhizhinashvili investigated the behavior of Cesàro
\((C, \alpha )\)-means for double trigonometric Fourier series in detail. Goginava [
18] studied the analogous question in the case of the Walsh system. In particular, the following theorems were proved.
In this paper, we state and prove analogous results in the case of double Vilenkin–Fourier series. Our main results are the following theorems.
To make the proofs of these theorems clearer, we formulate some auxiliary lemmas in Sect.
2. Some of these lemmas are new and of independent interest. Detailed proofs can be found in Sect.
3.
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