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Absolute continuity of harmonic measure for domains with lower regular boundaries

We study absolute continuity of harmonic measure with respect to surface measure on domains $Ω$ that have large complements. We show that if $Γ\subset \mathbb{R}^{d+1}$ is $d$-Ahlfors regular and splits $ \mathbb{R}^{d+1}$ into two NTA domains then $ω_Ω\ll \mathscr{H}^{d}$ on $Γ\cap \partialΩ$. This result is a natural generalisation of a result of Wu in [Wu86]. We also prove that almost every point in $Γ\cap\partialΩ$ is a cone point if $Γ$ is a Lipschitz graph. Combining these results and a result from [AHMMMTV], we characterize sets of absolute continuity with finite $\mathscr{H}^{d}$-measure both in terms of the cone point condition and in terms of the rectifiable structure of the boundary. This generalizes the results of McMillan in [McM69] and Pommerenke in [Pom86]. Finally, we also show our first result holds for elliptic measure associated with real second order divergence form elliptic operators with a mild assumption on the gradient of the matrix.