Semiregular and strongly irregular boundary points for $p$-harmonic functions on unbounded sets in metric spaces

Abstract

The trichotomy between regular, semiregular, and strongly irregular boundary points for p-harmonic functions is obtained for unbounded open sets in complete metric spaces with a doubling measure supporting a p-Poincaré inequality, 1 < p < ∞. We show that these are local properties. We also deduce several characterizations of semiregular points and strongly irregular points. In particular, semiregular points are characterized by means of capacity, p-harmonic measures, removability, and semibarriers.