Solution

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The concentric normalization of an eccentric annulus here uses
This Möbius transformation preserves the unit circle and sends the inner circle's real endpoints to . Its image circle is symmetric about the real axis and hence is . Equivalently, expanding gives , precisely the inner-circle equation. Thus sends the domain to . Conformal invariance of harmonic measure and i give
The zero of lies in the removed inner disk, so this logarithm is harmonic throughout .

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