Strong Convergence of Spherical Harmonic Expansions on H1(Sd-1)

Let $\sigma_k^\delta$ denote the Cesaro means of order $\delta > -1$ of the spherical harmonic expansions on the unit sphere $S^{d-1}$, and let $E_j(f, H^1)$ denote the best approximation of $f$ in the Hardy space $H^1(S^{d-1})$ by spherical polynomials of degree at most $j$. It is known that $\lambda:= (d-2)/2$ is the critical index for the summability of the Cesaro means on $H^1(S^{d-1})$. The main result of this paper states that, for $ f\in H^1(S^{d-1})$, $$\sum_{j=0}^N \f 1{j+1} \|\sigma_j^\lambda (f) -f\|_{H^1}\approx \sum_{j=0}^N \f 1{j+1} E_j(f, H^1),$$ where “$\approx$” means that the ratio of both sides lies between two positive constants independent of $f$ and $N$.