For an inner circle of real center and radius lying strictly inside the unit circle, choose the real root of . When , take . The automorphism of the unit disk sends the inner circle to a concentric circle. Indeed it sends the two real endpoints to opposite real numbers; preservation of circles and reflection symmetry then give an image centered at zero. Its radius is .
The conformal invariance of harmonic measure and harmonic measure of an annulus give outer-boundary measure . For , the quadratic gives and , an explicit eccentric-annulus example.
For a conformal map extending to the relevant boundary sets, compose the target harmonic measure with the map. The planar Laplacian transforms by the positive factor , so the composition is a harmonic function with the correct boundary values. Uniqueness of the Dirichlet problem gives the displayed identity on regular domains, including the smooth-circle domains in the harmonic measure of an annulus.
The radial harmonic function with value zero at and one at is
Indeed is harmonic away from zero, and the displayed expression has the required boundary values. Uniqueness of the Dirichlet problem identifies it as the harmonic measure of an annulus.