The L^p-to-L^q boundedness of commutators with applications to the Jacobian operator

Abstract

Supplying the missing necessary conditions, we complete the characterisation of the $L^p\to L^q$ boundedness of commutators $[b,T]$ of pointwise multiplication and Calder\'on-Zygmund operators, for arbitrary pairs of $1 q$, our results are new even for special classical operators with smooth kernels. As an application, we show that every $f\in L^p(R^d)$ can be represented as a convergent series of normalised Jacobians $Ju=\det\nabla u$ of $u\in \dot W^{1,dp}(R^d)^d$. This extends, from $p=1$ to $p>1$, a result of Coifman, Lions, Meyer and Semmes about $J:\dot W^{1,d}(R^d)^d\to H^1(R^d)$, and supports a conjecture of Iwaniec about the solvability of the equation $Ju=f\in L^p(R^d)$.