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A symmetry theorem revisited

Author(s): John Lewis; Andrew Vogel
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 443-451.
MSC (1991): Primary 31B05, 31B20
Posted: June 6, 2001
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Abstract:

We show that if harmonic measure and Hausdorff measure are equal on the boundary of certain domains in Euclidean $n$-space, then these domains are necessarily balls.


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Additional Information:

John Lewis
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0027
Email: john@ms.uky.edu

Andrew Vogel
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244
Email: alvogel@syr.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-01-06200-1
PII: S 0002-9939(01)06200-1
Keywords: Harmonic measure, Hausdorff measure, quasiconformal, Green's function, Dirichlet problem
Received by editor(s): June 20, 2000
Posted: June 6, 2001
Additional Notes: The first author was supported in part by an NSF grant
Communicated by: Juha M. Heinonen
Copyright of article: Copyright 2001, American Mathematical Society


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