English

A two-phase free boundary problem for harmonic measure and uniform rectifiability

Analysis of PDEs 2020-02-04 v5 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

We assume that Ω1,Ω2Rn+1\Omega_1, \Omega_2 \subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}, n1n \geq 1 are two disjoint domains whose complements satisfy the capacity density condition and the intersection of their boundaries FF has positive harmonic measure. Then we show that in a fixed ball BB centered on FF, if the harmonic measure of Ω1\Omega_1 satisfies a scale invariant AA_\infty-type condition with respect to the harmonic measure of Ω2\Omega_2 in BB, then there exists a uniformly nn-rectifiable set Σ\Sigma so that the harmonic measure of ΣF\Sigma \cap F contained in BB is bounded below by a fixed constant independent of BB. A remarkable feature of this result is that the harmonic measures do not need to satisfy any doubling condition. In the particular case that Ω1\Omega_1 and Ω2\Omega_2 are complementary NTA domains, we obtain a geometric characterization of the AA_\infty condition between the respective harmonic harmonic measures of Ω1\Omega_1 and Ω2\Omega_2.

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@article{arxiv.1710.10111,
  title  = {A two-phase free boundary problem for harmonic measure and uniform rectifiability},
  author = {Jonas Azzam and Mihalis Mourgoglou and Xavier Tolsa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.10111},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

In this version we corrected an important typo in the definition of joint big pieces of chord arc subdomains. To appear in Transactions of the AMS

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