Conformal Brownian clock ($A(t)={\int }_0^t|{\varphi }^{\prime }(B_s){|}^{2}ds$)

For a conformal bijection $\varphi$ and planar Brownian motion $B$, this increasing clock measures the common quadratic variation of the two coordinates of $\varphi (B)$. The transformed Brownian path is $\varphi (B_{A^{-1}(t)})$. The inverse clock runs from image time to original time.

For a nonconstant entire function, its derivative is nonzero somewhere and therefore bounded away from zero on a small disc. Recurrence of planar Brownian motion and the Strong Markov property imply infinite total occupation time in that disc: repeat entrances into a smaller concentric disc after exits from the larger one. On each entrance there is a uniformly positive chance of remaining inside the larger disc for a fixed positive duration. Iterating the conditional failure bound gives infinitely many such sojourns almost surely.

The displayed integral is bounded below by a positive constant times this occupation time, so it diverges. The same conclusion follows by comparing with the divergence of a positive planar Brownian occupation integral. At every finite time the clock is finite, because the Brownian path has compact range and $f^{\prime }$ is continuous. Thus the conformal Brownian clock covers every nonnegative image time; conformal invariance of planar Brownian motion then yields a Brownian image with no missing finite or infinite lifetime.

A planar Brownian motion exits a conformal image of a bounded planar domain in finite time almost surely. If the image lifetime were infinite, the inverse derivative is bounded away from zero on a small interior disc. Recurrence of planar Brownian motion and the Strong Markov property give infinite Brownian occupation time there, forcing the inverse conformal Brownian clock to diverge. It cannot exceed the finite original exit time. The expected image exit time can nevertheless be infinite.