A boundary Harnack principle in twisted Hölder domains (Q1185446): Difference between revisions

The boundary Harnack principle for the ratio of positive harmonic functions is shown to hold in Hölder domains and twisted Hölder domains, respectively, of order \(\alpha\), \(\alpha\in]1/2,1]\). For Lipschitz domains, i.e. in the case \(\alpha=1\), this was proved by \textit{A. Ancona} [Ann. Inst. Fourier 28, 169-213 (1978; Zbl 0386.31002)] and by \textit{B. Dahlberg} [Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal. 65, 275-288, (1977; Zbl 0406.31003)]. The author's results are proved using the connection between Brownian motion and harmonic functions. It is shown that the desired boundary Harnack principle holds also for \(L\)-harmonic functions for a uniformly elliptic operator \(L\) in divergence form. Further, a twisted Hölder domain of order \(\alpha\in]0,1/2[\) is constructed to show that in this case the boundary Harnack principle is in general invalid.