Brownian excursions and minimal thinness. III: Applications to the angular derivative problem (Q1082483)

[Part I is a preprint, part II will appear in Sem. Stochastic Processes 1985.] Suppose that D is a simply connected region of \({\mathbb{C}}\), \(0\in \partial D\), and there exist an \(\epsilon >0\) and a Lipschitz function \(h: {\mathbb{R}}\to {\mathbb{R}}\) such that \[ \{z\in {\mathbb{C}}\setminus D: | z| \leq \epsilon \}\subset \{z\in {\mathbb{C}}: Re z\leq h(Im z)\}, \] \[ \int^{1}_{-1}\max (h(r),0)r^{-2} dr<\infty \quad and\quad \int^{1}_{-1}\min (h(r),0)r^{-2} dr=-\infty. \] Then there is no conformal one-to-one mapping f:\(\{\) \(z\in {\mathbb{C}}:\) Re z\(>0\}\to D\) with the property that \[ \lim_{z\to 0, Im z=0}f(z)=0\quad and\quad \lim_{z\to 0, Im z=0}f'(z)\in {\mathbb{C}}\setminus \{0\}. \] This and a few related results are proved using Brownian motion, in particular Brownian excursions. They provide a solution to a problem posed by \textit{B. Rodin} and \textit{St. E. Warschawski} [Math. Z. 153, 1-17 (1977; Zbl 0384.30006)].