Poisson capacities (Q1565808)

Poisson capacities were first introduced in the theory of removable boundary singularities for solutions of semilinear elliptic differential equation \(Lu=u^{\alpha}\), \(\alpha>1\). In this paper the authors establish two inequalities for the Poisson capacities. More precisely, let \(D\) be a smooth (\(C^{2,\lambda}\)) domain in \({\mathbb R}^d\), let \(k(x,y)\) be the Poisson kernel for the elliptic operator \(L\) in \(D\), and let \(g(x,y)\) be the corresponding Green function. The Poisson capacity of a Borel set \(\Gamma \subset D\) is defined by \[ \text{ Cap}(\Gamma)=\sup\left(\int_D\text{ dist}(y,\partial D) \left(\int_{\partial D}k(x,y) \nu(dy)\right)^{\alpha} dy\right)^{-1} \] where the supremum is taken over all probability measures \(\nu\) on \(\partial D\). The first inequality proved in the paper states that for all \(\Gamma\subset \partial D\), \(\text{ Cap}(\Gamma) \leq C \text{ diam}(\Gamma)^{\gamma +}\), where \(\gamma= d\alpha-d-\alpha-1\). For the second inequality the authors introduce, for each \(x\in D\), a capacity \[ \text{ Cap}_x(\Gamma)=\sup \left(\int_D g(x,y) \left(\int_{\partial D}k(x,y) \nu(dy)\right)^{\alpha} dy\right)^{-1} , \] and prove that \[ \text{ Cap}_x(\Gamma)\geq C {\text{ dist}(x,\Gamma)^d \over \text{ dist}(x,\partial D)} \text{ Cap}(\Gamma). \]