Characterization of Lipschitz Functions via Commutators of Multilinear Singular Integral Operators in Variable Lebesgue Spaces

Let (b) over right arrow = (b(1), b(2),..., b(m)) be a collection of locally integrable functions and T-Sigma(b) over right arrow the commutator of multilinear singular integral operator T. Denote by L(delta) and L(delta(center dot)) the Lipschitz spaces and the variable Lipschitz spaces, respectively. The main purpose of this paper is to establish some new characterizations of the (variable) Lipschitz spaces in terms of the boundedness of multilinear commutator T-Sigma(b) over right arrow in the context of the variable exponent Lebesgue spaces, that is, the authors give the necessary and sufficient conditions for b(j) (j = 1, 2,..., m) to be L(delta) or L(delta(center dot)) via the boundedness of multilinear commutator from products of variable exponent Lebesgue spaces to variable exponent Lebesgue spaces. The authors do so by applying the Fourier series technique and some pointwise estimate for the commutators. The key tool in obtaining such pointwise estimate is a certain generalization of the classical sharp maximal operator.