Real Interpolation of Compact Bilinear Operators

We establish an analog for bilinear operators of the compactness interpolation result for bounded linear operators proved by Cwikel and Cobos, Kühn and Schonbek. We work with the assumption that \(T:(A_0+A_1) \times (B_0+B_1) \longrightarrow E_0+E_1\) is bounded, but we also study the case when this does not hold. Applications are given to compactness of convolution operators and compactness of commutators of bilinear Calderón–Zygmund operators.