Mixed inequalities for commutators with multilinear symbol

Abstract

We prove mixed inequalities for commutators of Calder\'on-Zygmund operators (CZO) with multilinear symbols. Concretely, let $m\in\mathbb{N}$ and $\mathbf{b}=(b_1,b_2,\dots, b_m)$ be a vectorial symbol such that each component $b_i\in \mathrm{Osc}_{\mathrm{exp}\, L^{r_i}}$, with $r_i\geq 1$. If $u\in A_1$ and $v\in A_\infty(u)$ we prove that the inequality \[uv\left(\left\{x\in \mathbb{R}^n: \frac{|T_\mathbf{b}(fv)(x)|}{v(x)}>t\right\}\right)\leq C\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}\Phi\left(\|\mathbf{b}\|\frac{|f(x)|}{t}\right)u(x)v(x)\,dx\] holds for every $t>0$, where $\Phi(t)=t(1+\log^+t)^r$, with $1/r=\sum_{i=1}^m 1/r_i$. We also consider operators of convolution type with kernels satisfying less regularity properties than CZO. In this setting, we give a Coifman type inequality for the associated commutators with multilinear symbol. This result allows us to deduce the $L^p(w)$-boundedness of these operators when $1<p<\infty$ and $w\in A_p$. As a consequence, we can obtain the desired mixed inequality in this context.