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Wolfhard Hansen

Publications and source records attributed to Wolfhard Hansen.

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arXiv2012

Champagne subdomains with unavoidable bubbles

A champagne subdomain of a connected open set $U\ne\emptyset$ in $R^d$, $d\ge 2$, is obtained omitting pairwise disjoint closed balls $\bar{B}(x,r_x)$, $x\in X$, the bubbles, where $X$ is an infinite, locally finite set in $U$. The union $A$ of these balls may be unavoidable, that is, Brownian motion, starting in $U\setminus A$ and killed when leaving $U$, may hit $A$ almost surely or, equivalently, $A$ may have harmonic measure one for $U\setminus A$. Recent publications by Gardiner/Ghergu ($d\ge 3$) and by Pres ($d=2$) give rather sharp answers to the question how small such a set $A$ may be, when $U$ is the unit ball. In this paper, using a totally different approach, optimal results are obtained, results which hold as well for arbitrary connected open sets $U$.

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arXiv2012

Champagne subregions with unavoidable bubbles

A champagne subregion of a connected open set $U\ne\emptyset$ in $R^d$, $d\ge 2$, is obtained omitting pairwise disjoint closed balls $\bar B(x, r_x)$, $x\in X$, the bubbles, where $X$ is a locally finite set in $U$. The union $A$ of these balls may be unavoidable, that is, Brownian motion, starting in $U\setminus A$ and killed when leaving $U$, may hit $A$ almost surely or, equivalently, $A$ may have harmonic measure one for $U\setminus A$. Recent publications by Gardiner/Ghergu ($d\ge 3$) and by Pres ($d=2$) give rather sharp answers to the question how small such a set $A$ may be, when $U$ is the unit ball. In this paper, using a new criterion for unavoidable sets and a straightforward approach, much stronger results are obtained, results which hold as well for an arbitrary open set $U$.

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arXiv2010

Jensen measures in potential theory

It is shown that, for open sets in classical potential theory and - more generally - for elliptic harmonic spaces, the set of Jensen measures for a point is a simple union of closed faces of a compact convex set which has been thoroughly studied a long time ago. In particular, the set of extreme Jensen measures can be immediately identified. The results hold even without ellipticity (thus capturing also many examples for the heat equation) provided a rather weak approximation property for superharmonic functions or a certain transience property holds.

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arXiv2009

One-radius results for supermedian functions on $\Bbb R^d$, $d\le 2$

A classical result states that every lower bounded superharmonic function on $\Bbb R^2$ is constant. In this paper the following (stronger) one-circle version is proven. If $f\colon \Bbb R^2\to (-\infty,\infty]$ is lower semicontinuous, $\liminf_{|x|\to\infty} f(x)/\ln|x|\ge 0$, and, for every $x\in\Bbb R^2$, $1/(2π) \int_0^{2π} f(x+r(x)e^{it}) dt\le f(x)$, where $r\colon \Bbb R^2\to (0,\infty)$ is continuous, $\sup_{x\in\Bbb R^2} (r(x)-|x|)<\infty$, and $\inf_{x\in\Bbb R^2} (r(x)-|x|)=-\infty$, then $f$ is constant. Moreover, it is shown that, with respect to the assumption $r\le c|\cdot|+M$ on $\Bbb R^d$, there is a striking difference between the restricted volume mean property for the cases $d=1$ and $d=2$.

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arXiv2008

Time-dependent Schrödinger perturbations of transition densities

We construct the fundamental solution of $\partial_t-Δ_y- q(t,y)$, for functions $q$ with a certain integral space-time relative smallness, in particular for those satisfying a relative Kato condition. The resulting transition density is comparable to the Gaussian kernel in finite time, and it is even asymptotically equal to the Gaussian kernel (in small time) under the relative Kato condition. The result is generalized to arbitrary strictly positive and finite time-nonhomogeneous transition densities on measure spaces. We also discuss specific applications to Schrödinger perturbations of the fractional Laplacian in view of the fact that the 3P Theorem holds for the fundamental solution corresponding to the operator.

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arXiv2006

Convexity of limits of harmonic measures

It is shown that, given a point $x\in\mathbbm{R}^d$, $d\ge 2$, and open sets $U_1,...,U_k$ containing $x$, any convex combination of the harmonic measures for $x$ with respect to $U_n$, $1\le n\le k$, is the limit of a sequence of harmonic measures for $x$ with respect to open subsets $W_m$ of $U_1\cup... \cup U_k$ containing $x$. This answers a question raised in connection with Jensen measures. More generally, we prove that, for arbitrary measures on an open set $W$, the set of extremal representing measures, with respect to the cone of continuous potentials on $W$ or with respect to the cone of continuous functions on the closure of $W$ which are superharmonic $W$, is dense in the compact convex set of all representing measures. This is achieved approximating balayage on open sets by balayage on unions of balls which are pairwise disjoint and very small with respect to their mutual distances and then shrinking these balls in a suitable manner. The results are presented simultaneously for the classical case and for the theory of Riesz potentials. Finally, a characterization of all Jensen measures and of all extremal Jensen measures is given.

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