Harmonic capacity from infinity in the upper half-plane ($\mathrm{cap}(K)={\lim }_{y\to \infty }\pi y{\mathbb{P}}_{iy}(B_{T(\mathbb{H}\setminus K)}\in K)$)

This capacity measures the asymptotic probability that planar Brownian motion hits a compact H-hull before the real axis. It scales linearly with length and is distinct from half-plane capacity. A vertical slit of height $h$ has capacity $2h$; a half-disc of radius $r$ has capacity $4r$. Monotonicity of Brownian hitting probabilities gives $\mathrm{cap}(K)\le 4\mathrm{rad}(K)$, where the radius is that of the least real-centred enclosing half-disc. For finite slit hulls the capacity is the length of the image of the two-sided absorbing boundary under the mapping-out function.

For a connected slit joining $0$ to $x+iy$ with $x^2+y^2=1$, reflect across the vertical line through $x$. The two slits separate the vertical segment below the common tip and the intervening real boundary from infinity. Brownian reflection symmetry bounds the corresponding model hitting probability by twice the original hull-hitting probability. Mapping out the vertical segment gives total boundary-image length $1+y$ for its two banks together with the real interval between $0$ and $x$. The harmonic-measure asymptotic at infinity gives the displayed bound. This argument requires a separating connected barrier; radius gives no positive lower bound for disconnected harmonic hull capacity.

For $c=\sqrt{1-{\epsilon }^2}$, three vertical slits of height $\epsilon$ rooted at $-c,0,c$ form a compact H-hull of enclosing radius one. Subadditivity of harmonic hull capacity gives capacity at most $6\epsilon$, which can tend to zero. Thus a uniform lower bound requires additional geometric hypotheses.

When a finite union is a compact H-hull, hitting that union before the real axis implies hitting at least one member before the real axis. The union bound followed by the defining limit proves subadditivity of harmonic capacity from infinity in the upper half-plane.