In this paper we consider two weight bump conditions for higher order commutators. Given b and a Calderón–Zygmund operator T, define the commutator $$T^1_bf=[T,b]f= bTf-T(bf)$$ , and for $$m\ge 2$$ define the iterated commutator $$T^m_b f = [b,T_b^{m-1}]f$$ . Traditionally, commutators are defined for functions $$b\in BMO$$ , but we show that if we replace BMO by an oscillation class first introduced by Pérez (J Funct Anal 128(1):163–185, 1995), we can give a range of sufficient conditions on a pair of weights (u, v) for $$T^m_b : L^p(v) \rightarrow L^p(u)$$ to be bounded. Our results generalize work of Cruz-Uribe and Moen (Publ Mat 56(1):147–190, 2012), and more recent work by Lerner et al. (J Funct Anal 281(8):46, 2021). We also prove necessary conditions for the iterated commutators to be bounded, generalizing results of Isralowitz et al. (Commutators in the two scalar and matrix weighted setting. Preprint, 2020. http://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11182 ).
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