Sharp commutator estimates via harmonic extensions

Abstract

We give an alternative proof of several sharp commutator estimates involving Riesz transforms, Riesz potentials, and fractional Laplacians. Our methods only involve harmonic extensions to the upper half-space, integration by parts, and trace space characterizations. The commutators we investigate are Jacobians, more generally Coifman-Rochberg-Weiss commutators, Chanillo's commutator with the Riesz potential, Coifman-Meyer or Kato-Ponce-Vega type commutators, and the Da Lio-Rivière three-term commutators. We also give a new limiting $L^1$-estimate for a double commutator of Coifman-Rochberg-Weiss-type, and several intermediate estimates. The beauty of our method is that all those commutator estimates, which are originally proven by various specific methods or by general paraproduct arguments, can be obtained purely from integration by parts and trace theorems. Another interesting feature is that in all these cases the cancellation effect responsible for the commutator estimate simply follows from the product rule for classical derivatives and can be traced in a precise way.

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