Solution

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A bounded holomorphic function of planar Brownian motion is a local martingale up to exit, because its real and imaginary parts are harmonic and Itô's formula has zero drift. Stop before the given . Localization inside compact subdisks gives the local martingale , and makes it bounded. The bounded local martingale criterion therefore gives a true martingale.
Exit from the unit disk is finite almost surely, so is finite too. Taking and using the dominated convergence theorem yields
The same proof works for any bounded holomorphic function, after rescaling if needed; it does not require the stopping time itself to be bounded.

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