Let $Ω^+\subset\mathbb R^{n+1}$ be an NTA domain and let $Ω^-= \mathbb R^{n+1}\setminus \overline{Ω^+}$ be an NTA domain as well. Denote by $ω^+$ and $ω^-$ their respective harmonic measures. Assume that $Ω^+$ is a $δ$-Reifenberg flat domain for some $δ>0$ small enough. In this paper we show that $\log\frac{dω^-}{dω^+}\in VMO(ω^+)$ if and only if $Ω^+$ is vanishing Reifenberg flat, $Ω^+$ and $Ω^-$ have joint big pieces of chord-arc subdomains, and the inner unit normal of $Ω^+$ has vanishing oscillation with respect to the approximate normal. This result can be considered as a two-phase counterpart of a more well known related one-phase problem for harmonic measure solved by Kenig and Toro.
We prove that for any homogeneous, second order, constant complex coefficient elliptic system $L$, the Dirichlet problem in $\mathbb{R}^{n}_{+}$ with boundary data in BMO is well-posed in the class of functions $u$ with $dμ_u(x',t):=|\nabla u(x',t)|^2\,t\,dx'dt$ being a Carleson measure. We establish a Fatou type theorem guaranteeing the existence of the pointwise nontangential boundary trace for smooth null-solutions $u$ of such systems satisfying the said Carleson measure condition. These imply that BMO can be characterized as the collection of nontangential pointwise traces of smooth null-s…
We develop a method to study the structure of the common part of the boundaries of disjoint and possibly non-complementary time-varying domains in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, $n \geq 2$, at the points of mutual absolute continuity of their respective caloric measures. Our set of techniques, which is based on parabolic tangent measures, allows us to tackle the following problems: 1) Let $Ω_1$ and $Ω_2$ be disjoint domains in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, $n \geq 2$, which are quasi-regular for the heat equation and regular for the adjoint heat equation, and their complements satisfy a mild non-degeneracy hypothe…
We assume that $Ω_1, Ω_2 \subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, $n \geq 1$ are two disjoint domains whose complements satisfy the capacity density condition and the intersection of their boundaries $F$ has positive harmonic measure. Then we show that in a fixed ball $B$ centered on $F$, if the harmonic measure of $Ω_1$ satisfies a scale invariant $A_\infty$-type condition with respect to the harmonic measure of $Ω_2$ in $B$, then there exists a uniformly $n$-rectifiable set $Σ$ so that the harmonic measure of $Σ\cap F$ contained in $B$ is bounded below by a fixed constant independent of $B$. A remarkable …
We construct Ahlfors regular Cantor sets $K$ of small dimension in the plane, such that the Hausdorff measure on $K$ is equivalent to the harmonic measure associated to its complement. In particular the Green function in $R^2 \backslash K$ satisfies $G^p (x) \simeq \mathrm{dist} (x, K)^δ$ whenever $\mathrm{dist} (x, K) \le 1$ and $p$ is far from $K$.
Let $Ω\subset\mathbb R^{n+1}$ be open and let $E\subset \partialΩ$ with $0<H^s(E)<\infty$, for some $s\in(n,n+1)$, satisfy a local capacity density condition. In this paper it is shown that the harmonic measure cannot be mutually absolutely continuous with $H^s$ on $E$. This answers a question of Azzam and Mourgoglou, who had proved the same result under the additional assumption that $Ω$ is a uniform domain.
Let $Ω\subset\mathbb R^{n+1}$ be an open set with $n$-AD-regular boundary. In this paper we prove that if the harmonic measure for $Ω$ satisfies the so-called weak-$A_\infty$ condition, then $Ω$ satisfies a suitable connectivity condition, namely the weak local John condition. Together with other previous results by Hofmann and Martell, this implies that the weak-$A_\infty$ condition for harmonic measure holds if and only if $\partialΩ$ is uniformly $n$-rectifiable and the weak local John condition is satisfied. This yields the first geometric characterization of the weak-$A_\infty$ condition …
In non-variational two-phase free boundary problems for harmonic measure, we examine how the relationship between the interior and exterior harmonic measures of a domain $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ influences the geometry of its boundary. This type of free boundary problem was initially studied by Kenig and Toro in 2006 and was further examined in a series of separate and joint investigations by several authors. The focus of the present paper is on the singular set in the free boundary, where the boundary looks infinitesimally like zero sets of homogeneous harmonic polynomials of degree at least 2…
We prove a structure theorem for any $n$-rectifiable set $E\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, $n\ge 1$, satisfying a weak version of the lower ADR condition, and having locally finite $H^n$ ($n$-dimensional Hausdorff) measure. Namely, that $H^n$-almost all of $E$ can be covered by a countable union of boundaries of bounded Lipschitz domains contained in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\setminus E$. As a consequence, for harmonic measure in the complement of such a set $E$, we establish a non-degeneracy condition which amounts to saying that $H^n|_E$ is "absolutely continuous" with respect to harmonic measure in the …
Let $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ be an open set, not necessarily connected, with an $n$-dimensional uniformly rectifiable boundary. We show that $\partialΩ$ may be approximated in a "Big Pieces" sense by boundaries of chord-arc subdomains of $Ω$, and hence that harmonic measure for $Ω$ is weak-$A_\infty$ with respect to surface measure on $\partialΩ$, provided that $Ω$ satisfies a certain weak version of a local John condition. Under the further assumption that $Ω$ satisfies an interior Corkscrew condition, and combined with our previous work, and with recent work of Azzam, Mourgoglou and Tolsa…
We give several new characterizations of Caratheodory convergence of simply connected domains. We then investigate how different definitions of convergence generalize to the multiply-connected case.
We study the properties of harmonic measure in semi-uniform domains. Aikawa and Hirata showed in \cite{AH08} that, for John domains satisfying the capacity density condition (CDC), the doubling property for harmonic measure is equivalent to the domain being semi-uniform. Our first result removes the John condition by showing that any domain satisfying the CDC whose harmonic measure is doubling is semi-uniform. Next, we develop a substitute for some classical estimates on harmonic measure in nontangentially accessible domains that works in semi-uniform domains. We also show that semi-uniform do…
We show that given a domain $Ω\subseteq \mathbb{R}^{d+1}$ with uniformly non-flat Ahlfors $s$-regular boundary and $s\geq d$, the dimension of its harmonic measure is strictly less than $s$.
A Palm hierarchy for determinantal point processes with the confluent hypergeometric kernel, the decomposing measures in the problem of harmonic analysis on the infinite-dimensional unitary group
