Champagne subregions with unavoidable bubbles

MaRDI QIDQ6233528FDO

Authors Wolfhard Hansen, Ivan Netuka

Publication date 7 June 2012

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brownian motion (60J65) Potentials and capacities, extremal length and related notions in higher dimensions (31B15) Potentials and capacity, harmonic measure, extremal length and related notions in two dimensions (31A15)

Abstract: A champagne subregion of a connected open set $Ueemptyset$ in $R^d$, $dge2$, is obtained omitting pairwise disjoint closed balls $$, $xinX$, the bubbles, where $X$ is a locally finite set in $U$. The union $A$ of these balls may be unavoidable, that is, Brownian motion, starting in $UsetminusA$ and killed when leaving $U$, may hit $A$ almost surely or, equivalently, $A$ may have harmonic measure one for $UsetminusA$. Recent publications by Gardiner/Ghergu ($dge3$) and by Pres ($d=2$) give rather sharp answers to the question how small such a set $A$ may be, when $U$ is the unit ball. In this paper, using a new criterion for unavoidable sets and a straightforward approach, much stronger results are obtained, results which hold as well for an arbitrary open set $U$.

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