Boundary Harnack principle for subordinate Brownian motions (Q1016631)

The authors establish a boundary Harnack principle for a large class of subordinate Brownian motions, including mixtures of symmetric stable processes, in \(\kappa \)-fat open sets (an open set \(D \subseteq \mathbb R^d\) is called \(\kappa\)-fat for \(\kappa\in (0,1/2]\) if for every boundary point \(z\) and for every sufficiently small \(r>0\) the intersection \(D\cap B(z,r)\) contains a ball of radius \(\kappa r\)). The key technical result is a sharp upper bound for the expected exit time from a ball. Their arguments are similar to those in: \textit{K. Bogdan} [Stud. Math. 123, No.~1, 43--80 (1997; Zbl 0870.31009)] and in \textit{R. Song} and \textit{J. Wu} [J. Funct. Anal. 168, No.~2, 403--427 (1999; Zbl 0945.31006)]. As an application, it is proved that the Martin boundary and the minimal Martin boundary of bounded \(\kappa \)-fat open sets with respect to these processes are identical with their Euclidean boundaries.