Cauchy winding law at the first unit-disc exit

ID: cauchy-winding-law-at-the-first-unit-disc-exit

For a start in the punctured unit disc, the logarithmic lift starts at in the upper half-plane. Local conformal invariance of planar Brownian motion changes its clock by . That clock is finite at the disc exit because the stopped path is compact and avoids zero. Its terminal real coordinate is therefore the usual upper-half-plane Cauchy exit law from a Brownian half-plane. Subtracting gives the displayed winding law. Its first absolute moment diverges logarithmically, even though the final point modulo angle lies on a compact circle.

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