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Quantitative estimates of discrete harmonic measures

Probability 2007-05-23 v3 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

A theorem of Bourgain states that the harmonic measure for a domain in Rd\R^d is supported on a set of Hausdorff dimension strictly less than dd \cite{Bourgain}. We apply Bourgain's method to the discrete case, i.e., to the distribution of the first entrance point of a random walk into a subset of Zd\Z ^d, d2d\geq 2. By refining the argument, we prove that for all \b>0\b>0 there exists ρ(d,\b)<d\rho (d,\b)<d and N(d,\b)N(d,\b), such that for any n>N(d,\b)n>N(d,\b), any xZdx \in \Z^d, and any A{1,...,n}dA\subset \{1,..., n\}^d {yZd ⁣:νA,x(y)n\b}nρ(d,\b), | \{y\in\Z^d\colon \nu_{A,x}(y) \geq n^{-\b} \}| \leq n^{\rho(d,\b)}, where νA,x(y)\nu_{A,x} (y) denotes the probability that yy is the first entrance point of the simple random walk starting at xx into AA. Furthermore, ρ\rho must converge to dd as \b\b \to \infty.

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@article{arxiv.math/9908047,
  title  = {Quantitative estimates of discrete harmonic measures},
  author = {E. Bolthausen and K. Muench-Berndl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9908047},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

16 pages, 2 figures. Part (B) of the theorem is new