Abstract In this paper we prove a higher dimensional analogue of Carleson’s$$\varepsilon ^{2}$$ conjecture. Given two arbitrary disjoint Borel sets$$\Omega ^{+},\Omega ^{-}\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$$ , and$$x\in \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$$ ,$$r>0$$ , we denote$$ \varepsilon _{n}(x,r) := \frac{1}{r^{n}}\, \inf _{H^{+}} \mathcal{H}^{n} \left ( ((\partial B(x,r)\cap H^{+}) \setminus \Omega ^{+}) \cup (( \partial B(x,r)\cap H^{-}) \setminus \Omega ^{-})\right ), $$ where the infimum is taken over all open affine half-spaces$$H^{+}$$ such that$$x \in \partial H^{+}$$ and we define$$H^{-}= \mathbb{R}^{n+1} \setminus \overline{H^{+}}$$ . Our first main result asserts that the set of points$$x\in \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$$ where$$ \int _{0}^{1} \varepsilon _{n}(x,r)^{2} \, \frac{dr}{r}< \infty $$ is$$n$$ -rectifiable. For our second main result we assume that$$\Omega ^{+}$$ ,$$\Omega ^{-}$$ are open and that$$\Omega ^{+}\cup \Omega ^{-}$$ satisfies the capacity density condition. For each$$x \in \partial \Omega ^{+} \cup \partial \Omega ^{-}$$ and$$r>0$$ , we denote by$$\alpha ^{\pm }(x,r)$$ the characteristic constant of the (spherical) open sets$$\Omega ^{\pm }\cap \partial B(x,r)$$ . We show that, up to a set of$$\mathcal{H}^{n}$$ measure zero,$$x$$ is a tangent point for both$$\partial \Omega ^{+}$$ and$$\partial \Omega ^{-}$$ if and only if$$ \int _{0}^{1} \min (1,\alpha ^{+}(x,r) + \alpha ^{-}(x,r) -2) \frac{dr}{r} < \infty . $$ The first result is new even in the plane and the second one improves and extends to higher dimensions the$$\varepsilon ^{2}$$ conjecture of Carleson. 
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            Abstract It has been recently established in David and Mayboroda (Approximation of green functions and domains with uniformly rectifiable boundaries of all dimensions.arXiv:2010.09793) that on uniformly rectifiable sets the Green function is almost affine in the weak sense, and moreover, in some scenarios such Green function estimates are equivalent to the uniform rectifiability of a set. The present paper tackles a strong analogue of these results, starting with the “flagship degenerate operators on sets with lower dimensional boundaries. We consider the elliptic operators$$L_{\beta ,\gamma } =- {\text {div}}D^{d+1+\gamma -n} \nabla $$ associated to a domain$$\Omega \subset {\mathbb {R}}^n$$ with a uniformly rectifiable boundary$$\Gamma $$ of dimension$$d < n-1$$ , the now usual distance to the boundary$$D = D_\beta $$ given by$$D_\beta (X)^{-\beta } = \int _{\Gamma } |X-y|^{-d-\beta } d\sigma (y)$$ for$$X \in \Omega $$ , where$$\beta >0$$ and$$\gamma \in (-1,1)$$ . In this paper we show that the Green functionGfor$$L_{\beta ,\gamma }$$ , with pole at infinity, is well approximated by multiples of$$D^{1-\gamma }$$ , in the sense that the function$$\big | D\nabla \big (\ln \big ( \frac{G}{D^{1-\gamma }} \big )\big )\big |^2$$ satisfies a Carleson measure estimate on$$\Omega $$ . We underline that the strong and the weak results are different in nature and, of course, at the level of the proofs: the latter extensively used compactness arguments, while the present paper relies on some intricate integration by parts and the properties of the “magical distance function from David et al. (Duke Math J, to appear). 
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                            - Award ID(s):
- 1839077
- PAR ID:
- 10369381
- Publisher / Repository:
- Springer Science + Business Media
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Mathematische Annalen
- Volume:
- 385
- Issue:
- 3-4
- ISSN:
- 0025-5831
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- p. 1797-1821
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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