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The Boundary Harnack Principle for Non-Divergence form Elliptic Operators
Department of Mathematics, University of Washington Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Received 12 June 1991.
If L is a uniformly elliptic operator in non-divergence form, the boundary Harnack principle for the ratio of positive L-harmonic functions holds in Hölder domains of order
if
>
. A counterexample shows that
is sharp. For Hölder domains of order
with 
(0,1], the boundary Harnack principle holds provided the domain also satisfies a strong uniform regularity condition.
Research partially supported by NSF grants DMS 8822053 and DMS 8901255.