Brownian exit law from a quadrant

ID: brownian-exit-law-from-a-quadrant

Planar Brownian motion started at , , exits the positive quadrant through either positive coordinate axis with probability one-half. The density along each axis is for , measured with respect to distance along that axis. Squaring maps the quadrant to the upper half-plane and sends the starting point to . The boundary square therefore has the centered Cauchy distribution of scale ; pulling it back by gives the displayed density. The radius has distribution function , independently of which axis is chosen. There is no atom at the origin.

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