Abstract: | The composition of two Calderón-Zygmund singular integral operators is given explicitly in terms of the kernels of the operators. For φ?L1(Rn) and ε = 0 or 1 and ∝ φ = 0 if ε = 0, let Ker(φ) be the unique function on Rn + 1 homogeneous of degree ?n ? 1 of parity ε that equals φ on the hypersurface x0 = 1. Let Sing(φ, ε) denote the singular integral operator , which exists under suitable growth conditions on ? and φ. Then Sing(φ, ε1) Sing(ψ, ε2)f = ?2π2(∝ φ)(∝ ψ)f + Sing(A, ε1, + ε2)f, where (with notation ). This result is used to show that the mapping ψ → A is a classical pseudo-differential operator of order zero if φ is smooth, with top-order symbol , where θ(ξ) is a cut-off function. These results are generalized to singular integrals with mixed homogeneity. |