Quasiconformal mappings and singularity of boundary distortion

We extend a well-known theorem of Jones and Makarov 8] on the singularity of boundary distortion of planar conformal mappings. Using a different technique, we recover the previous result and generalize the result to quasiconformal mappings of the unit ball ⊂_∝ ⁿ , n ≥ 2. We also establish an estimate on the Hausdorff (gauge) dimension of the boundary of the image domain outside an exceptional set of given size on the sphere ∂ and show that this estimate is essentially sharp.