Abstract:
The paper looks at the problem of determining the conditions on a variable exponent $p=p(x)$ so that the orthonormal system of Legendre polynomials $\{\widehat P_n(x)\}_{n=0}^\infty$ is
a basis in the Lebesgue space $L^{p(x)}(-1,1)$ with norm
$$
\|f\|_{p(\,\cdot\,)}=\inf\biggl\{\alpha>0:
\int_{-1}^1\biggl|{\frac{f(x)}{\alpha}}\biggr|^{p(x)}\,dx \le1\biggr\}.
$$
Conditions on the exponent $p=p(x)$, that are definitive in a certain sense,
are obtained and guarantee that the system $\{\widehat P_n(x)\}_{n=0}^\infty$
has the basis property in $L^{p(x)}(-1,1)$.
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