Chord-arc surfaces with small constant, I

AbstractWe introduce a notion for hypersurfaces in Rd + 1 that is analogous to the chord-arc condition with small constant for curves in the plane. We give various equivalent operator-theoretic, function-theoretic, and geometrical characterizations of these surfaces. We not know any nice potential-theoretic characterizations. In a companion paper we address the issue of finding good parameterizations for these surfaces