Compactness of the Bloom sparse operators and applications

We establish the characterization of compactness for the sparse operator (associated with symbol in weighted VMO space) in the two weight setting on the spaces of homogeneous type in the sense of Coifman and Weiss. As a direct application we obtain the compactness characterization for the maximal commutators with respect to the weighted VMO functions and the commutator of Calder\'on-Zygmund operators on the homogeneous spaces. Furthermore, our approach can be applied to compactness characterization for operators in the multilinear Bloom setting.