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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 202 5 a Solution by
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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 , yieldsThus both coordinates are continuous local martingales, withSince 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 formTo 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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