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Multiple Fourier Series

In the book by Elias M.Stein and Guido Weiss "Introduction to Fourier Analysis On Euclidean Spaces" one states in page 268 the following theorem:

Theorem 1:The trigonometric series $$\underset{m\in \mathbb{Z}^{n}, m\neq 0}\sum |m|^{-(n/2)+1/2}e^{2\pi i m.x}$$ diverges almost everywhere. More particularly, $$\underset{R\rightarrow\infty}\limsup \,\,|\underset{0<|m|<R}\sum |m|^{-(n/2)+1/2}e^{2\pi i m.x}|=\infty$$

We have noted in the previous theorem for $m=(m_{1},...,m_{n})\in\mathbb{Z}^{n}$ and $x=(x_{1},...,x_{n})\in\mathbb{R}^{n}$:
$$|m|^{2}=m_{1}^{2}+...+m_{n}^{2}$$ $$m.x=m_{1}x_{1}+...+m_{n}x_{n}.$$ My request is: For a real number $\alpha>0$ consider the trigonometric series $$\underset{m\in \mathbb{Z}^{n}, m\neq 0}\sum \frac{e^{2\pi i m.x}}{|m|^{\alpha}}.$$ For what value of $\alpha$ the previous series is convergent?

The convergence mode we adopt is the following: The previous series is convergent for $\alpha$ if $$\underset{R\rightarrow\infty}\lim {\underset{0<|m|\leq R}\sum \frac{e^{2\pi i m.x}}{|m|^{\alpha}} }$$ exits.
The question is already well elucidated for $n=1$. For $n>1$ the previous theorem asserts that there is divergence for $\alpha=\frac{n}{2}-\frac{1}{2}$.
For other kind of convergence mode these question is treated by Stephen Wainger in "Special Trigonometric Series In k-Dimensions."