On Evans' and Choquet's theorems for polar sets

DOI10.1007/S11118-020-09890-0MaRDI QIDQ2118840zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wolfhard Hansen, Ivan Netuka

Publication date 23 March 2022

Published in Potential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08091

zbMATH Keywords

capacitypolar setpotential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Potentials and capacities, extremal length and related notions in higher dimensions (31B15) Potentials and capacities on other spaces (31C15)

Abstract: By classical results of G.C. Evans and G. Choquet on "good kernels $G$ in potential theory", for every polar $K_{s}igma$-set $P$, there exists a finite measure $mu$ on $P$ such that $Gmu=infty$ on $P$, and a set $P$ admits a finite measure $mu$ on $P$ such that $Gmu=infty=P$ if and only if $P$ is a polar $G_{d}elta$-set. A known application of Evans' theorem yields the solutions of the generalized Dirichlet problem for open sets by the Perron-Wiener-Brelot method using only harmonic upper and lower functions. In this note it is shown that, by elementary "metric" considerations and without using any potential theory, such results can be obtained for general kernels $G$ satisfying a local triangle property. The particular case, $G(x,y)=|x-y{|}^{alpha-d}$ on $R^d$, $2<alpha<d$, solves a long-standing open problem.

Review text

This article discusses some results on polar sets that go back to G. C. Evans and G. Choquet. Specifically, given any polar \(K_\sigma\)-set \(P\), there exists a finite measure \(\mu\) on \(P\) such that its potential \(G\mu\) is infinite on \(P\), and a set \(P\) admits a finite measure \(\mu\) on \(P\) such that \(G\mu\) is infinite exactly on \(P\) if and only if \(P\) is a polar \(G_\delta\)-set. The authors show that these results can be obtained using an elementary metric sweeping of measures and no potential theory arguments, provided that the general kernel \(G\) satisfies locally the condition \[ \min\big\{ G(x,z), G(y,z)\big\}\leq C G(x,y). \]

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