The Dimension of the Frontier of Planar Brownian Motion

Abstract

Let $B$ be a two dimensional Brownian motion and let the frontier of $B[0,1]$ be defined as the set of all points in $B[0,1]$ that are in the closure of the unbounded connected component of its complement. We prove that the Hausdorff dimension of the frontier equals $2(1 - \alpha)$ where $\alpha$ is an exponent for Brownian motion called the two-sided disconnection exponent. In particular, using an estimate on $\alpha$ due to Werner, the Hausdorff dimension is greater than $1.015$.