Solution

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The field is centered and jointly Gaussian. Since the Gaussian free field has covariance and ,
Also and
Joint Gaussianity turns this zero covariance into independence. Therefore is a Pinned Gaussian free field at , independent of , with covariance equal to the Green function of the walk killed on hitting .
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