Carleson measure estimates for the Green function (Q2113547)

The paper is related to studies of the relations between an elliptic operator \(L\) on a domain \(\Omega\), the geometry of \(\Omega\), and the boundary behavior of the Green function. The authors consider a divergence form elliptic operator \(L =-\mathrm{div}(A\nabla)\) on the upper half-space \(\mathbb{R}^{d+1}\), where \(A\) is an \((d + 1) \times (d + 1)\) matrix of real-valued, bounded and measurable functions. It is shown that its Green function is almost affine, or more precisely, that the normalized difference between the Green function and a suitable affine function at every scale satisfies a Carleson measure estimate, provided that the oscillations of the coefficients satisfy the traditional quadratic Carleson condition. The results are sharp, it is demonstrated that the class of the operators considered in the paper cannot be improved.