Boundedness and compactness of commutators associated with Lipschitz functions

Abstract: Let $\alpha\in (0, 1]$, $\beta\in [0, n)$ and $T_{\Omega,\beta}$ be a singular or fractional integral operator with homogeneous kernel $\Omega$. In this article, a CMO type space ${\rm CMO}\alpha(\mathbb R^n)$ is introduced and studied. In particular, the relationship between ${\rm CMO}\alpha(\mathbb R^n)$ and the Lipchitz space $Lip_\alpha(\mathbb R^n)$ is discussed. Moreover, a necessary condition of restricted boundedness of the iterated commutator $(T_{\Omega,\beta})^m_b$ on weighted Lebesgue spaces via functions in $Lip_\alpha(\mathbb R^n)$, and an equivalent characterization of the compactness for $(T_{\Omega,\beta})^m_b$ via functions in ${\rm CMO}_\alpha(\mathbb R^n)$ are obtained. Some results are new even in the unweighted setting for the first order commutators.