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A counterexample regarding a two-phase problem for harmonic measure in VMO

Analysis of PDEs 2024-08-28 v3 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

Let Ω+Rn+1\Omega^+\subset\mathbb R^{n+1} be a vanishing Reifenberg flat domain such that Ω+\Omega^+ and Ω=Rn+1Ω+\Omega^-=\mathbb R^{n+1}\setminus\overline {\Omega^+} have joint big pieces of chord-arc subdomains and the outer unit normal to Ω+\Omega^+ belongs to VMO(ω+)VMO(\omega^+), where ω±\omega^\pm is the harmonic measure of Ω±\Omega^\pm. Up to now it was an open question if these conditions imply that logdωdω+VMO(ω+)\log\dfrac{d\omega^-}{d\omega^+} \in VMO(\omega^+). In this paper we answer this question in the negative by constructing an appropriate counterexample in R2\mathbb R^2, with the additional property that the outer unit normal to Ω+\Omega^+ is constant ω+\omega^+-a.e. in Ω+\partial\Omega^+.

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@article{arxiv.2401.14568,
  title  = {A counterexample regarding a two-phase problem for harmonic measure in VMO},
  author = {Xavier Tolsa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.14568},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

More detailed arguments in Lemmas 3.1 and 3.2

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