Structure of sets which are well approximated by zero sets of harmonic polynomials

DOI10.2140/APDE.2017.10.1455MaRDI QIDQ2363706zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthew Badger, Max Engelstein, Tatiana Toro

Publication date 26 July 2017

Published in Analysis \& PDE (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03211

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic polynomialsHausdorff dimensionharmonic measuresingular setMinkowski dimensionNTA domainstwo-phase free boundary problemsReifenberg-type setsŁojasiewicz-type inequalities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory (28A75) Spherical harmonics (33C55) Potentials and capacity, harmonic measure, extremal length and related notions in two dimensions (31A15)

Abstract: The zero sets of harmonic polynomials play a crucial role in the study of the free boundary regularity problem for harmonic measure. In order to understand the fine structure of these free boundaries a detailed study of the singular points of these zero sets is required. In this paper we study how "degree $k$ points" sit inside zero sets of harmonic polynomials in $mathbb{R}^n$ of degree $d$ (for all $ngeq2$ and $1leqkleqd$) and inside sets that admit arbitrarily good local approximations by zero sets of harmonic polynomials. We obtain a general structure theorem for the latter type of sets, including sharp Hausdorff and Minkowski dimension estimates on the singular set of "degree $k$ points" ($kgeq2$) without proving uniqueness of blowups or aid of PDE methods such as monotonicity formulas. In addition, we show that in the presence of a certain topological separation condition, the sharp dimension estimates improve and depend on the parity of $k$. An application is given to the two-phase free boundary regularity problem for harmonic measure below the continuous threshold introduced by Kenig and Toro.

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