Endpoint compactness of singular integrals and perturbations of the Cauchy Integral

Abstract

We prove sufficient and necessary conditions for compactness of Calder\'on-Zygmund operators on the endpoint from $L^{\infty }(\mathbb R)$ into ${\rm CMO}(\mathbb R)$. We use this result to prove compactness on $L^{p}(\mathbb R)$ with $1<p<\infty $ of certain perturbations of the Cauchy integral on curves with normal derivatives satisfying a ${\rm CMO}$-condition.