Divergence of the conformal Brownian clock for an entire function

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For a nonconstant entire function, its derivative is nonzero somewhere and therefore bounded away from zero on a small disc. Recurrence of planar Brownian motion and the Strong Markov property imply infinite total occupation time in that disc: repeat entrances into a smaller concentric disc after exits from the larger one. On each entrance there is a uniformly positive chance of remaining inside the larger disc for a fixed positive duration. Iterating the conditional failure bound gives infinitely many such sojourns almost surely.
The displayed integral is bounded below by a positive constant times this occupation time, so it diverges. The same conclusion follows by comparing with the divergence of a positive planar Brownian occupation integral. At every finite time the clock is finite, because the Brownian path has compact range and is continuous. Thus the conformal Brownian clock covers every nonnegative image time; conformal invariance of planar Brownian motion then yields a Brownian image with no missing finite or infinite lifetime.

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