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The two-dimensional Itô formula gives the local martingale part of as , with all derivatives evaluated along . Independent Brownian coordinates have brackets and . Hence the quadratic variation is
Similarly, the quadratic covariation with is
Sufficient pointwise conditions are equal gradient lengths and perpendicular gradients:
The Cauchy-Riemann equations , imply both. These are the quadratic covariations of an analytic Brownian image; harmonicity is needed to remove the drift, but the two bracket identities themselves follow just from the displayed derivative relations.

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