Abstract: | We investigate the almost everywhere convergence of , where is a measurable function satisfying By a known criterion, if satisfies the above conditions and belongs to the Lip class for some , then is a.e. convergent provided . Using probabilistic methods, we prove that the above result is best possible; in fact there exist Lip 1/2 functions and almost exponentially growing sequences such that is a.e. divergent for some with . For functions with Fourier series having a special structure, we also give necessary and sufficient convergence criteria. Finally we prove analogous results for the law of the iterated logarithm. |