Boundary Harnack principle and Martin boundary for a uniform domain (Q5932003)

Let \(D\) be a domain in \(\mathbb R^{n}\). A boundary Harnack principle is a principle of the following type: If \(V\) is an open set and \(K\) a compact subset of \(V\) intersecting the boundary \(\partial D\), then there is a positive constant \(A\) such that, NEWLINE\[NEWLINE {u(x)/v(x)\over u(y)/v(y)}\leq A NEWLINE\]NEWLINE for \(x,y\in K\cap D\), and \(u\) and \(v\) are positive harmonic functions on \(D\) with vanishing boundary values on \(V\cap\partial D\). The author proves a boundary Harnack principle for a uniform domain \(D\). A uniform domain is, roughly speaking, a domain that only satisfies the interior conditions of an NTA domain. There are also some applications of this result, including the Hölder continuity of a quotient of positive harmonic functions at the boundary, and that the Martin boundary of a bounded uniform domain is homeomorphic to its Euclidean boundary. There is also given an example of a bounded uniform domain for which a local Fatou theorem fails, but it is proved that the global Fatou theorem still holds for uniform domains.