Compactness of a conformal boundary of the Euclidean unit ball

Abstract

We study conformal metrics d‰ on the Euclidean unit ball B n : We assume that either the density ‰ associated with the metric d‰ satisfies a logarithmic volume growth condition for small balls or that ‰ satisfies a Harnack inequality and a suitable sub-Euclidean volume growth condition. We prove that the ‰-boundary @‰ B n is homeomorphic to S ni1 if and only if @‰ B n is compact. In the planar case, the compactness of @‰ B 2 is further equivalent to local connectivity of the ‰-boundary together with the boundedness of (B 2 ;d‰):