Structure of sets which are well approximated by zero sets of harmonic polynomials
Structure of sets which are well approximated by zero sets of harmonic polynomials
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由调和多项式的零集很好地近似的集合的结构
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2015
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通讯作者:
T. Toro
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作者:
Matthew Badger;Max Engelstein;T. Toro
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 $ngeq 2$ and $1leq kleq d$) 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" ($kgeq 2$) 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.