Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2016/iii/paper-202/5/a/solution

Interpret as a conformal bijection onto . If it is merely an injective map into a larger target, the correct exit domain is instead. Let be the exit time from , write , and identify planar Brownian motion with . The Cauchy-Riemann equations give , , and both are harmonic functions. The Itô formula, localized on compact subsets of , yields
Thus both coordinates are continuous local martingales, with
Since never vanishes, is strictly increasing before . Let , defined for . The optional time-change theorem gives continuous local martingale coordinates for , with bracket matrix . The Lévy characterization of multidimensional Brownian motion makes a standard planar Brownian motion started at , up to its lifetime. Therefore conformal invariance of planar Brownian motion takes the form
To identify the lifetime, exhaust by relatively compact open sets with nested closures. The images exhaust because is a homeomorphism onto . Each stopped transformed path exits at precisely the clock value of its exit from . Increasing these exit times gives the exit lifetime of Brownian motion from , including a possibly infinite lifetime. This identifies with that lifetime and needs no global extension of to the boundary.

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