The boundedness (on $L^p$ spaces) of commutators $[b,T] = bT-Tb$ of pointwise multiplication $b$ and singular integral operators $T$ has been well studied for a long time. Curiously, the necessary conditions for this boundedness to happen are generally less understood than the sufficient conditions, for instance what comes to the assumptions on the operator $T$. I will discuss some new results in this direction, and show how this circle of ideas relates to the mapping properties of the Jacobian (the determinant of the derivative matrix) on first order Sobolev spaces. This is work in progress at the time of submitting the abstract, so I will hopefully be able to present some fairly fresh material.[-]

One of my recent main interests has been the characterization of boundedness of (integral) operators between two $L^p$ spaces equipped with two different measures. Some recent developments have indicated a need of "Banach spaces and their applications" also in this area of Classical Analysis. For instance, while the theory of two-weight $L^2$ inequalities is already rich enough to deal with a number of singular operators (like the Hilbert transform), the $L^p$ theory has been essentially restricted to positive operators so far. In fact, a counterexample of $F$. Nazarov shows that the common "Sawyer testing" or "David-Journé $T(1)$" type characterization will fail, in general, in the two-weight $L^p$ world. What comes to rescue is what we so often need to save the $L^2$ results in an Lp setting: $R$-boundedness in place of boundedness! Even in the case of positive operators, it turns out that a version of "sequential boundedness" is useful to describe the boundedness of operators from $L^p$ to $L^q$ when $q < p$. - This is about my recent joint work with T. Hänninen and K. Li, as well as the work of my student E. Vuorinen.

two-weight inequalities - boundedness - singular operators[-]