In this paper, we study the behaviours of the commutators $[\vec b,\,T]$ generated by multilinear Calderón–Zygmund operators $T$ with $\vec b=(b_1,\,\ldots,\,b_m)\in L_{\rm loc}(\mathbb {R}^n)$ on weighted Hardy spaces. We show that for some $p_i\in (0,\,1]$ with $1/p=1/p_1+\cdots +1/p_m$, $\omega \in A_\infty$ and $b_i\in \mathcal {BMO}_{\omega,p_i}$ ($1\le i\le m$), which are a class of non-trivial subspaces of ${\rm BMO}$, the commutators $[\vec b,\,T]$ are bounded from $H^{p_1}(\omega )\times \cdots \times H^{p_m}(\omega )$ to $L^p(\omega )$. Meanwhile, we also establish the corresponding results for a class of maximal truncated multilinear commutators $T_{\vec b}^*$.

Given a weighted shift T of multiplicity two, we study the set $\sqrt {T}$ of all square roots of T. We determine necessary and sufficient conditions on the weight sequence so that this set is non-empty. We show that when such conditions are satisfied, $\sqrt {T}$ contains a certain special class of operators. We also obtain a complete description of all operators in $\sqrt {T}$.

This paper obtains new characterizations of weighted Hardy spaces and certain weighted $BMO$ type spaces via the boundedness of variation operators associated with approximate identities and their commutators, respectively.

In this article, we establish a new atomic decomposition for $f\,\in \,L_{w}^{2}\,\bigcap \,H_{w}^{p}$, where the decomposition converges in $L_{w}^{2}$-norm rather than in the distribution sense. As applications of this decomposition, assuming that $T$ is a linear operator bounded on $L_{w}^{2}$ and $0\,<\,p\,\le \,1$, we obtain (i) if $T$ is uniformly bounded in $L_{w}^{p}$-norm for all $w-p$-atoms, then $T$ can be extended to be bounded from $H_{w}^{p}$ to $L_{w}^{2}$; (ii) if $T$ is uniformly bounded in $H_{w}^{p}$-norm for all $w-p$-atoms, then $T$ can be extended to be bounded on $H_{w}^{p}$; (iii) if $T$ is bounded on $H_{w}^{p}$, then $T$ can be extended to be bounded from $H_{w}^{p}$ to $L_{w}^{2}$.