Sharp Integrability for Brownian Motion in Parabola-shaped Regions

Abstract

We study the sharp order of integrability of the exit position of Brownian motion from the planar domains ${\cal P}_α= \{(x,y)\in \bR\times \bR\colon x> 0, |y| < Ax^α\}$, $0<α<1$. Together with some simple good-$λ$ type arguments, this implies the order of integrability for the exit time of these domains; a result first proved for $α=1/2$ by Bañuelos, DeBlassie and Smits \cite{ba} and for general $α$ by Li \cite{li}. A sharp version of this result is also proved in higher dimensions.