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Lower bounds on Bourgain’s constant for harmonic measure

Part of: Markov processes Higher-dimensional theory Classical measure theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2023

Matthew Badger  and
Alyssa Genschaw
Matthew Badger*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States
Alyssa Genschaw
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI, United States e-mail: genschaw@msoe.edu
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e-mail: matthew.badger@uconn.edu
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Abstract

For every $n\geq 2$, Bourgain’s constant $b_n$ is the largest number such that the (upper) Hausdorff dimension of harmonic measure is at most $n-b_n$ for every domain in $\mathbb {R}^n$ on which harmonic measure is defined. Jones and Wolff (1988, Acta Mathematica 161, 131–144) proved that $b_2=1$. When $n\geq 3$, Bourgain (1987, Inventiones Mathematicae 87, 477–483) proved that $b_n>0$ and Wolff (1995, Essays on Fourier analysis in honor of Elias M. Stein (Princeton, NJ, 1991), Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 321–384) produced examples showing $b_n<1$. Refining Bourgain’s original outline, we prove that

$$\begin{align*}b_n\geq c\,n^{-2n(n-1)}/\ln(n),\end{align*}$$
for all $n\geq 3$, where $c>0$ is a constant that is independent of n. We further estimate $b_3\geq 1\times 10^{-15}$ and $b_4\geq 2\times 10^{-26}$.

Keywords

Harmonic measureHausdorff dimensionBourgain’s estimateFrostman’s lemmanet measures

MSC classification

Primary: 31B15: Potentials and capacities, extremal length
Secondary: 28A75: Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory 31B25: Boundary behavior 60J65: Brownian motion

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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 76 , Issue 6 , December 2024 , pp. 1967 - 1986
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Footnotes

M. Badger was partially supported by NSF DMS grant 2154047.

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