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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 203 2 b Solution by
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The implication is false. Take the thin rectanglesEach is a compact H-hull, and . We verify that its half-plane capacity nevertheless tends to zero.
Let , which contains all these rectangles. At the Brownian exit time from , the exit height is at most , and a positive exit height requires hitting before . ThereforeFor , conformal invariance of planar Brownian motion and identify the probability on the right with the harmonic measure of from in . Integrating the Poisson kernel for the upper half-plane givesThe Brownian representation of half-plane capacity now proves the explicit estimateChoose to obtain the required sequence. This is an instance of half-plane capacity of a low rectangle: shrinking height can make half-plane capacity small while horizontal extent stays fixed.
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