Calderón commutators and the Cauchy integral on Lipschitz curves revisited. I. First commutator and generalizations (Q742893)

This is the first paper of three ones, whose aim is to give new proofs to the well-known theorems of Calderón, Coifman, McIntosh and Meyer, concerning \(L^p\) estimates for the Calderón commutators and the Cauchy integral on Lipschitz curves. This one describes the case of Calderón's first commutator and its generalizations. More precisely, the author treats the linear operator \(C_1(f)\) defined by \(C_1(f)(x)=\text{p.v.\,}\int_{\mathbb R}\frac{A(x)-A(y)}{(x-y)^2}f(y)\,dy\), where \(A'=a\in L^\infty(\mathbb R)\). This can be seen as a bilinear operator \(C_1(f,a)\), and can be written in the following bilinear Fourier multiplier form: \(\int_{\mathbb R^2}[\int_{0}^{1}\mathrm{sgn}(\xi+\alpha\xi_1)\,d\alpha] \hat f(\xi)\hat a(\xi_1)e^{2\pi x(\xi+\xi_1)}d\xi d\xi_1\). The author gives a new proof of the following boundedness result due to Calderón: \[ \|C_1(f,a)\|_{L^p(\mathbb R} \leq C\|a\|_{L^\infty(\mathbb R)}\|f\|_{L^p(\mathbb{R})} \] . For a good function \(g\), \(\int_{\mathbb R}C_1(f,a)(x)g(x)\,dx\) can be written as \(\int_{\mathbb R}C_1^{*2}(f,g)(x)a(x)\,dx\). In this paper, the author proves that \(\|C_1^{*2}(f,g)\|_{1}\leq C \|f\|_p\|g\|_{p'}\) for any \(f,g\in\mathcal S(\mathbb R)\), which leads to the proof of Calderón's estimate. It is proves by developing the ideas in treating bilinear Fourier multiplier theory developed by the author, Lacey, Thiele, Tao, etc, i.e. by discretizing \(C_1^{*2}\) and reducing it to a discrete finite model. Editorial remark: For Part II see [Zbl 1306.42027].