An extremal decomposition problem for harmonic measure

Abstract: Let

E

be a continuum in the closed unit disk

| z | l e 1

of the complex

z

-plane which divides the open disk

| z | < 1

into

n g e 2

pairwise non-intersecting simply connected domains

D_{k},

such that each of the domains

D_{k}

contains some point

a_{k}

on a prescribed circle

| z | = h o, 0 < h o < 1, k = 1, ..., n, .

It is shown that for some increasing function

P s i,

independent of

E

and the choice of the points

a_{k},

the mean value of the harmonic measures

Psi^{-1}[ frac{1}{n} sum_{k=1}^{k} Psi(omega(a_k,E, D_k))]

is greater than or equal to the harmonic measure

o m e g a (h o, E^{*}, D^{*}),,

where

E^{*} = z : z^{n} i n [- 1, 0]

and

D^{*} = z : | z | < 1, | m a r g z | < p i / n, .

This implies, for instance, a solution to a problem of R.W. Barnard, L. Cole, and A. Yu. Solynin concerning a lower estimate of the quantity

i n f_{E} m a x_{k = 1, ..., n} o m e g a (a_{k}, E, D_{k}),

for arbitrary points of the circle

| z | = h o, .

These authors stated this hypothesis in the particular case when the points are equally distributed on the circle

| z | = h o, .

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