Banach-valued multilinear singular integrals

Abstract

We develop a general framework for the analysis of operator-valued multilinear multipliers acting on Banach-valued functions. Our main result is a Coifman-Meyer type theorem for operator-valued multilinear multipliers acting on suitable tuples of UMD spaces. A concrete case of our theorem is a multilinear generalization of Weis' operator-valued H\"ormander-Mihlin linear multiplier theorem. Furthermore, we derive from our main result a wide range of mixed $L^p$-norm estimates for multi-parameter multilinear paraproducts, leading to a novel mixed norm version of the partial fractional Leibniz rules of Muscalu et. al.. Our approach works just as well for the more singular tensor products of a one-parameter Coifman-Meyer multiplier with a bilinear Hilbert transform, extending results of Silva. We also prove several operator-valued $T (1)$-type theorems both in one parameter, and of multi-para\-meter, mixed-norm type. A distinguishing feature of our $T(1)$ theorems is that the usual explicit assumptions on the distributional kernel of $T$ are replaced with testing-type conditions. Our proofs rely on a newly developed Banach-valued version of the outer $L^p$ space theory of Do and Thiele.