3G-inequality for planar domains (Q664341)

Suppose that \(D\) is a bounded planar domain and let \(G_D\) be its Green function. \textit{R. F. Bass} and \textit{K. Burdzy} [``Conditioned Brownian motion in planar domains'', Probab. Theory Relat. Fields 101, No. 4, 479--493 (1995; Zbl 0834.60089)] used genuinely probabilistic techniques to prove a 3G-inequality: There exists a constant \(c_1\) which depends only on the diameter of \(D\) such that for all distinct points \(x,y,z\in D\), \[ \frac{G_D(x,y)G_D(y,z)}{G_D(x,z)}\leq c_1\cdot \left (1+\log^+\frac{1}{|x-y|}+\log^+\frac{1}{|y-z|}\right ). \] In the present article the author employs only elementary properties of harmonic measure to prove a more precise version of the 3G-inequality. This version applies to certain unbounded domains which are defined by using a capacity condition. It also implies that for bounded domains, there exists a universal constant \(c\) such that for all distinct points \(x,y,z\in D\), \[ \frac{G_D(x,y)G_D(y,z)}{G_D(x,z)}\leq c\cdot \left (1+\log\frac{\text{diam}(D)}{\min \{|x-y|, |y-z|\} } \right ). \]