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For the Joukowski map $g(z)=z+z^{-1}$,It maps the exterior upper half-disc $D_0=\{z\in \mathbb{H}:|z|>1\}$ into $\mathbb{H}$. It is injective there: $g(z)=g(w)$ gives $(z-w)(1-1/(zw))=0$, and the second factor cannot vanish when both moduli exceed one. It is onto as well. For $v\in \mathbb{H}$, the two roots of $z^2-vz+1=0$ have product one. Neither lies on the unit circle, since $z+z^{-1}$ is real there. Exactly one root has modulus greater than one, and the displayed imaginary-part formula makes its imaginary part positive. That root belongs to $D_0$ and maps to $v$.

Since $g_{K_0}$ takes values in $\mathbb{H}$, its domain must be contained in $D_0$. The established injectivity and surjectivity of $g:D_0\to \mathbb{H}$ mean that no proper subdomain of $D_0$ can map onto all of $\mathbb{H}$ using this same function. ThereforeThe half-plane capacity is the coefficient of $1/z$ in the normalized expansion. If hulls are regarded as closed subsets of $\overline{\mathbb{H}}$, take the closure of this half-disc, including its diameter; its relative half-plane hull and capacity are unchanged. This is the half-plane capacity of a half-disc.

Compare the hull with the empty hull and the filled unit half-disc $J=\{z\in \mathbb{H}:|z|\le 1\}$. Their mapping-out functions of compact H-hulls are $g_{\varnothing }(z)=z$ and $g_J(z)=z+1/z$, the latter also giving the half-plane capacity of a half-disc.

Use one planar Brownian motion started at $iy$, with $y>1$. For $x>1$, exiting $\mathbb{H}\setminus J$ through $(x,\infty )$ entails avoiding $K$, while exiting $\mathbb{H}\setminus K$ through this interval entails reaching it before exit from the whole half-plane. Thus the tail harmonic measures satisfyFor any of these fixed hulls $L$, the Poisson kernel for the upper half-plane gives the exact tail formulaSubtract from $1/2$, multiply by $\pi y$, and take the limit. The inequalities reverse, yielding the real boundary bounds:Applying this result to the reflected hull $-\overline{K}$ also givesThe comparison is of Brownian exit events, so it does not assume that arbitrary conformal maps are pointwise ordered by domain inclusion.

For the vertical slit, choose the branch of $\sqrt{z^2+1}$ asymptotic to $z$ at infinity. It is the mapping-out function of a compact H-hull for $(0,i]$, andThus half-plane capacity of a vertical slit givesThe endpoint $0$ is merely part of the boundary closure convention.

For the filled upper half-disc $K=\{z\in \mathbb{H}:|z|\le 1\}$, the conformal map $g_K(z)=z+1/z$ maps the exterior half-disc onto $\mathbb{H}$. Indeed, it sends the semicircle to $[-2,2]$, the remaining real boundary to the complementary intervals, and its inverse is the branch of $(w+\sqrt{w^2-4})/2$ asymptotic to $w$. Hence half-plane capacity of a half-disc givesIf $\mathbb{D}$ denotes the open unit disc, the printed $\mathbb{H}\cap \mathbb{D}$ is not relatively closed and is literally not a compact H-hull. The intended value is the one for its filled relative closure $K$. With a closed-disc convention the displayed notation already represents that hull.

For a nonempty compact H-hull $A$, its closure meets $\mathbb{R}$: otherwise a nonempty compact set strictly inside $\mathbb{H}$ would be separated from the lower half-plane in the complement, contradicting the simply connected domain condition for $\mathbb{H}\setminus A$. Choose $x\in \overline{A}\cap \mathbb{R}$ and put $d=\mathrm{diam}(A)$. Taking limits in the definition of diameter shows $|z-x|\le d$ for every $z\in A$. Thus $A$ lies in the filled half-disc of radius $d$ centered at $x$. Its half-plane capacity is $d^2$ by scaling and translation of half-plane capacity. Using monotonicity of half-plane capacity,For the empty compact H-hull, use diameter zero. This proves the unit-constant version of half-plane capacity is bounded by squared diameter; no claim of optimality of the constant is needed.