Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-stochastic-differential-equations-and-brownian-motion-in-complex-analysis-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2009/b/6/a/solution

Let , the initial distance from the annulus center, and . The function is harmonic on the annulus, so its value along stopped planar Brownian motion is a local martingale by Itô's formula. It is bounded between and before exit, hence is a true bounded martingale.
By the assumed almost sure finiteness of , continuity, and dominated convergence,
where is the inner-boundary exit probability. Solving gives the harmonic measure of an annulus:
The two probabilities sum to one, as the exit must lie on one of the two circles.

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