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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 201 3 d Solution by
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Let be Brownian motion in started at a nonzero point. The function is a positive harmonic function on because its Laplacian vanishes there. Stopping on annuli and applying Itô formula shows that is a local martingale. Letting the inner boundary shrink to zero also shows that three-dimensional Brownian motion does not hit the origin.
A positive local martingale is a supermartingale, so is -bounded by . The upcrossing proof from part (c), which applies verbatim to a positive supermartingale, therefore gives a finite almost-sure limit
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