For the quadratic family
, we study the exterior Green function of the Mandelbrot set
through classical conformal uniformization, logarithmic potential theory, and quantitative escape-rate approximation. As classical input, we use the Douady–Hubbard parameter B?ttcher map
, normalized at infinity, and the representation
. The harmonicity and positivity of
on
, its continuous extension by zero on
, its normalized logarithmic growth at infinity, its uniqueness as the normalized exterior Green function, and the identity
are classical facts recalled to fix the analytic framework and normalization. The quantitative escape-rate estimate used in this paper was established in the author’s earlier work. The contribution of the present paper is to provide a self-contained telescoping
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