Planar Brownian motion avoids a fixed point

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Planar Brownian motion started away from zero does not hit zero. Stopping the harmonic function on an annulus gives probability of reaching its inner circle before its outer circle. This tends to zero as . Exhausting the plane by outer circles proves point avoidance at finite times.

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