Characterizations of a class of Musielak--Orlicz BMO spaces via commutators of Riesz potential operators

Abstract: The fractional integral operators $I_α$ can be used to characterize the Musielak--Orlicz Hardy spaces. This paper shows that for $b\in \rm BMO(\mathbb R^n)$, the commutators $[b,I_α]$ generated by fractional integral operators $I_α$ with $b$ are bounded from the Musielak--Orlicz Hardy spaces $H^{\varphi_1}(\mathbb R^n)$ to the Musielak--Orlicz spaces $L^{\varphi_2}(\mathbb R^n)$ (where $1<u<\infty$ and $\varphi_1$, $\varphi_2$ are growth functions) if and only if $b\in \mathcal {BMO}{\varphi_1,u}(\mathbb R^n)$, which are a class of non-trivial subspaces of $\rm BMO(\mathbb R^n)$. Additionally, we obtain the boundedness of the commutator $[b,Iα]$ from $H^{\varphi_1}(\mathbb R^n)$ to $H^{\varphi_2}(\mathbb R^n)$. The corresponding results are also provided for commutators of fractional integrals associated with general homogeneous kernels.