{ "id": "2401.14568", "version": "v1", "published": "2024-01-25T23:44:57.000Z", "updated": "2024-01-25T23:44:57.000Z", "title": "A counterexample regarding a two-phase problem for harmonic measure in VMO", "authors": [ "Xavier Tolsa" ], "comment": "arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2209.14346", "categories": [ "math.AP", "math.CA" ], "abstract": "Let $\\Omega^+\\subset\\mathbb R^{n+1}$ be a vanishing Reifenberg flat domain such that $\\Omega^+$ and $\\Omega^-=\\mathbb R^{n+1}\\setminus\\overline {\\Omega^+}$ have joint big pieces of chord-arc subdomains and the outer unit normal to $\\Omega^+$ belongs to $VMO(\\omega^+)$, where $\\omega^\\pm$ is the harmonic measure of $\\Omega^\\pm$. Up to now it was an open question if these conditions imply that $\\log\\dfrac{d\\omega^-}{d\\omega^+} \\in VMO(\\omega^+)$. In this paper we answer this question in the negative by constructing an appropriate counterexample in $\\mathbb R^2$, with the additional property that the outer unit normal to $\\Omega^+$ is constant $\\omega^+$-a.e. in $\\partial\\Omega^+$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2024-01-25T23:44:57.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "31B15", "31B20", "28A75" ], "keywords": [ "harmonic measure", "two-phase problem", "outer unit normal", "counterexample regarding", "joint big pieces" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }