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Let ${\mathrm{\Omega <\#comment/>}}^{+}\subset <\#comment/>{\mathbb{R}}^{n+1}$be a bounded $\mathrm{\delta <\#comment/>}$-Reifenberg flat domain, with $\mathrm{\delta <\#comment/>}>0$small enough, possibly with locally infinite surface measure. Assume also that ${\mathrm{\Omega <\#comment/>}}^{-<\#comment/>}={\mathbb{R}}^{n+1}\setminus <\#comment/>\stackrel{¯<\#comment/>}{{\mathrm{\Omega <\#comment/>}}^{+}}$is an NTA (non-tangentially accessible) domain as well and denote by ${\mathrm{\omega <\#comment/>}}^{+}$and ${\mathrm{\omega <\#comment/>}}^{-<\#comment/>}$the respective harmonic measures of ${\mathrm{\Omega <\#comment/>}}^{+}$and ${\mathrm{\Omega <\#comment/>}}^{-<\#comment/>}$with poles $p^{\pm <\#comment/>}\in <\#comment/>{\mathrm{\Omega <\#comment/>}}^{\pm <\#comment/>}$. In this paper we show that the condition that $\log <\#comment/>\frac{d{\mathrm{\omega <\#comment/>}}^{-<\#comment/>}}{d{\mathrm{\omega <\#comment/>}}^{+}}\in <\#comment/>\mathrm{VMO}<\#comment/>\left({\mathrm{\omega <\#comment/>}}^{+}\right)$is equivalent to ${\mathrm{\Omega <\#comment/>}}^{+}$being a chord-arc domain with inner unit normal belonging to $\mathrm{VMO}<\#comment/>\left({\mathcal{H}}^n{|}_{\mathrm{\partial <\#comment/>}{\mathrm{\Omega <\#comment/>}}^{+}}\right)$. 

We show that if $$\Omega$$ is a vanishing chord-arc domain and $$L$$ is a divergence-form elliptic operator with H\"older-continuous coefficient matrix, then $$\log k_L \in VMO$, where $$k_L$$ is the elliptic kernel for $$L$$ in the domain $$\Omega$$. This extends the previous work of Kenig and Toro in the case of the Laplacian 

Abstract We study the existence and structure of branch points in two-phase free boundary problems. More precisely, we construct a family of minimizers to an Alt–Caffarelli–Friedman-type functional whose free boundaries contain branch points in the strict interior of the domain. We also give an example showing that branch points in the free boundary of almost-minimizers of the same functional can have very little structure. This last example stands in contrast with recent results of De Philippis, Spolaor and Velichkov on the structure of branch points in the free boundary of stationary solutions. 

Abstract Let Ω ⊂ ℝ n + 1 {\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{n+1}} , n ≥ 2 {n\geq 2} , be a 1-sided non-tangentially accessible domain (aka uniform domain), that is, Ω satisfies the interior Corkscrew and Harnack chain conditions, which are respectively scale-invariant/quantitative versions of openness and path-connectedness. Let us assume also that Ω satisfies the so-called capacity density condition, a quantitative version of the fact that all boundary points are Wiener regular. Consider L 0 ⁢ u = - div ⁢ ( A 0 ⁢ ∇ ⁡ u ) {L_{0}u=-\mathrm{div}(A_{0}\nabla u)} , L ⁢ u = - div ⁢ ( A ⁢ ∇ ⁡ u ) {Lu=-\mathrm{div}(A\nabla u)} , two real (non-necessarily symmetric) uniformly elliptic operators in Ω, and write ω L 0 {\omega_{L_{0}}} , ω L {\omega_{L}} for the respective associated elliptic measures. The goal of this program is to find sufficient conditions guaranteeing that ω L {\omega_{L}} satisfies an A ∞ {A_{\infty}} -condition or a RH q {\mathrm{RH}_{q}} -condition with respect to ω L 0 {\omega_{L_{0}}} . In this paper we establish that if the discrepancy of the two matrices satisfies a natural Carleson measure condition with respect to ω L 0 {\omega_{L_{0}}} , then ω L ∈ A ∞ ⁢ ( ω L 0 ) {\omega_{L}\in A_{\infty}(\omega_{L_{0}})} . Additionally, we can prove that ω L ∈ RH q ⁢ ( ω L 0 ) {\omega_{L}\in\mathrm{RH}_{q}(\omega_{L_{0}})} for some specific q ∈ ( 1 , ∞ ) {q\in(1,\infty)} , by assuming that such Carleson condition holds with a sufficiently small constant. This “small constant” case extends previous work of Fefferman–Kenig–Pipher and Milakis–Pipher together with the last author of the present paper who considered symmetric operators in Lipschitz and bounded chord-arc domains, respectively. Here we go beyond those settings, our domains satisfy a capacity density condition which is much weaker than the existence of exterior Corkscrew balls. Moreover, their boundaries need not be Ahlfors regular and the restriction of the n -dimensional Hausdorff measure to the boundary could be even locally infinite. The “large constant” case, that is, the one on which we just assume that the discrepancy of the two matrices satisfies a Carleson measure condition, is new even in the case of nice domains (such as the unit ball, the upper-half space, or non-tangentially accessible domains) and in the case of symmetric operators. We emphasize that our results hold in the absence of a nice surface measure: all the analysis is done with the underlying measure ω L 0 {\omega_{L_{0}}} , which behaves well in the scenarios we are considering. When particularized to the setting of Lipschitz, chord-arc, or 1-sided chord-arc domains, our methods allow us to immediately recover a number of existing perturbation results as well as extend some of them.