Smoothing of commutators for a Hörmander class of bilinear pseudodifferential operators (Q485229)

At the beginning of the paper, the authors introduce the class of bilinear Calderón-Zygmund operators and recall some of their properties. Then, the class \(Op\,BS^m_{\rho,\delta}\) of bilinear pseudodifferential operators \(T_\sigma\) having symbols \(\sigma\) that belong to the bilinear Hörmander class \(BS^m_{\rho,\delta}\) is defined. For each bilinear operator \(T\) and multiplicative functions \(b\), \(b_1\), \(b_2\), three bilinear commutators are considered. For example, \[ [T,b]_1(f, g)= T(bf,g)- bT(f,g),\;[T,b]_2(f,g)= T(f,bg)- bT(f,g),\text{ etc.} \] In the main results of the paper, Theorem 1 and Theorem 2, a link between the Calderón-Zygmund operators and \(Op\,BS^1_{1,0}\) is found. More precisely, if \(T_\sigma\in Op\,BS^1_{1,0}\) and \(a\) is a Lipschitz function s.t. \(\nabla a\in L^\infty\), then \([T_\sigma,a]_i\), \(i= 1,2\), are bilinear Calderón-Zygmund operators. Therefore, \([T_\sigma,a]_i\) are bounded from \(L^p\times L^q\to L^r\) for \({1\over p}+{1\over q}={1\over r}\), \(1< p\), \(q<\infty\), \(1\leq r<\infty\). A compactness result for the iteration of commutators is given in Theorem 2.