October 2022 Growth of stationary Hastings–Levitov
Noam Berger, Eviatar B. Procaccia, Amanda Turner
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Ann. Appl. Probab. 32(5): 3331-3360 (October 2022). DOI: 10.1214/21-AAP1761

Abstract

We construct and study a stationary version of the Hastings–Levitov(0) model. We prove that, unlike in the classical HL(0) model, in the stationary case the size of particles attaching to the aggregate is tight, and therefore SHL(0) is proposed as a potential candidate for a stationary off-lattice variant of diffusion limited aggregation (DLA). The stationary setting, together with a geometric interpretation of the harmonic measure, yields new geometric results such as stabilization, finiteness of arms and arm size distribution. We show that, under appropriate scaling, arms in SHL(0) converge to the graph of Brownian motion which has fractal dimension 3/2. Moreover we show that trees with n particles reach a height of order n2/3, corresponding to a numerical prediction of Meakin from 1983 for the gyration radius of DLA growing on a long line segment.

Funding Statement

The second author was supported by NSF Grant 1812009.
The third author was supported by EPSRC Grant EP/T027940/1.

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Itai Benjamini, Jacob Kagan and Gady Kozma for fruitful discussions at the beginning of this project. We would also like to thank the anonymous referee for their thorough reading of this manuscript and helpful comments which greatly improved the readability. Amanda Turner would like to thank the University of Geneva for a visiting position in 2019/20 during which time much of this work was completed.

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Noam Berger. Eviatar B. Procaccia. Amanda Turner. "Growth of stationary Hastings–Levitov." Ann. Appl. Probab. 32 (5) 3331 - 3360, October 2022. https://doi.org/10.1214/21-AAP1761

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Received: 1 August 2020; Revised: 1 May 2021; Published: October 2022
First available in Project Euclid: 18 October 2022

MathSciNet: MR4497847
zbMATH: 1500.60005
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/21-AAP1761

Subjects:
Primary: 60D05 , 60K35

Keywords: Aggregation processes , DLA , Hastings–Levitov

Rights: Copyright © 2022 Institute of Mathematical Statistics

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