By Jürgen Bliedtner, Wolfhard Hansen
Over the past thirty years strength conception has gone through a fast improvement, a lot of that can nonetheless simply be present in the unique papers. This publication bargains with one a part of this improvement, and has goals. the 1st is to offer a complete account of the shut connection among analytic and probabilistic capability thought with the proposal of a balayage area showing as a normal hyperlink. the second one goal is to illustrate the elemental significance of this idea by utilizing it to provide a instantly presentation of balayage concept which in flip is then utilized to the Dirichlet challenge. now we have thought of it to be past the scope of this booklet to regard additional issues akin to duality, perfect boundary and crucial illustration, power and Dirichlet kinds. the subject material of this booklet originates within the relation among classical capability concept and the idea of Brownian movement. either theories are associated with the Laplace operator. although, the deep connection among those theories used to be first printed within the papers of S. KAKUTANI [1], [2], [3], M. KAC [1] and J. L. DO DB [2] through the interval 1944-54: this is expressed through the·fact that the harmonic measures which take place within the answer of the Dirichlet challenge are hitting distri butions for Brownian movement or, equivalently, that the optimistic hyperharmonic func tions for the Laplace equation are the over the top capabilities of the Brownian semi team.
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The function l(ε ) := lim inf x→∞ F(x(1 + ε )) F(x) decreases in ε > 0, due to the monotonicity of F. 46) implies that there exists a positive δ such that l(ε ) ≤ 1 − 2δ for any ε > 0. Hence, for any positive integer n, we can find xn such that F(xn (1 + 1/n)) ≤ (1 − δ )F(xn ) Without loss of generality we may assume the sequence {xn } to be increasing. Now put h(x) = x/n for x ∈ [xn , xn+1 ). Then h(x) = o(x) as x → ∞. However, lim inf x→∞ F(x + h(x)) F(xn + h(xn )) ≤ lim inf n→∞ F(x) F(xn ) = lim inf n→∞ F(xn (1 + 1/n)) F(xn ) ≤ 1−δ, which contradicts the o(x)-insensitivity of F.
For the lognormal distribution, one can take h(x) = o(x/ ln x) in order to have h-insensitivity. For the 1−α ). Weibull distribution with parameter α ∈ (0, 1), one can √take h(x) = o(x In many practical situations, the class of so-called x-insensitive distributions – those which are h-insensitive for the function h(x) = x1/2 – is of special interest. Among these are intermediate regularly-varying distributions (in particular regularly-varying distributions), lognormal distributions and Weibull distributions with shape parameter α < 1/2.
In the case where we do not have h(x) < x/2 for all x, small variations are required to the above proof. If F is subexponential, then we may consider instead ˆ ˆ the function hˆ given by h(x) = min(h(x), x/2). 3) holds with h replaced by h, and so also in its original form. 4), which does not affect the argument. 6 implies that, as in the case of non-negative subexponential summands, the most probable way for large deviations of the sum ξ1 + ξ2 to occur is that one summand is small and the other is large; for (very) large x, the main contribution to the probability P{ξ1 + ξ2 > x} is made by the probabilities of the events {ξ1 + ξ2 > x, ξi ≤ h(x)} for i = 1, 2.