The implication is false. Take the thin rectangles
Each is a compact H-hull, and . We verify that its half-plane capacity nevertheless tends to zero.
Let , which contains all these rectangles. At the Brownian exit time from , the exit height is at most , and a positive exit height requires hitting before . Therefore
For , conformal invariance of planar Brownian motion and identify the probability on the right with the harmonic measure of from in . Integrating the Poisson kernel for the upper half-plane gives
The Brownian representation of half-plane capacity now proves the explicit estimate
Choose to obtain the required sequence. This is an instance of half-plane capacity of a low rectangle: shrinking height can make half-plane capacity small while horizontal extent stays fixed.
Figure 1.
Half-plane capacities of a slit, half-disc and thin rectangle
. Two explicit half-plane capacities and a thin compact H-hull with fixed width and vanishing half-plane capacity. Details.
False. Let
After filling bounded complementary components if necessary, this is a compact H-hull with diameter asymptotic to . The half-plane capacity of a low rectangle estimate, together with scaling and translation of half-plane capacity, gives
Thus unbounded diameter need not force unbounded capacity.
Write and take . By the Brownian representation of half-plane capacity,
On hitting , the exit height is at most one. Moreover, lies in the half-disc of radius . The harmonic measure of that semicircle as viewed from is : mapping its exterior to by reduces the estimate to the Poisson kernel for the upper half-plane on an interval of length . Consequently
for large , and . This is the half-plane capacity of a low rectangle.
For , let . The Brownian representation of half-plane capacity gives
On hitting the imaginary part is at most one, while the harmonic measure estimate supplied in the question shows that the probability of reaching a disc of radius containing is . Hence , the half-plane capacity of a low rectangle bound.
Set
The scaling and translation of half-plane capacity gives
whereas . This supplies the required sequence.