Commutator estimates for Haar shifts with general measures

Abstract

We study $L^p(\mu)$ estimates for the commutator $[H,b]$, where the operator $H$ is a dyadic model of the classical Hilbert transform introduced in \cite{arXiv:2012.10201,arXiv:2212.00090} and is adapted to a non-doubling Borel measure $\mu$ satisfying a dyadic regularity condition which is necessary for $H$ to be bounded on $L^p(\mu)$. We show that $\|[H, b]\|_{L^p(\mu) \rightarrow L^p(\mu)} \lesssim \|b\|_{\mathrm{BMO}(\mu)}$, but to {\it characterize} martingale BMO requires additional commutator information. We prove weighted inequalities for $[H, b]$ together with a version of the John-Nirenberg inequality adapted to appropriate weight classes $\widehat{A}_p$ that we define for our non-homogeneous setting. This requires establishing reverse H\"{o}lder inequalities for these new weight classes. Finally, we revisit the appropriate class of nonhomogeneous measures $\mu$ for the study of different types of Haar shift operators.