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Diffusion limited aggregation in the Boolean lattice

Probability 2017-12-25 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

In the Diffusion Limited Aggregation (DLA) process on on Z2\mathbb{Z}^2, or more generally Zd\mathbb{Z}^d, particles aggregate to an initially occupied origin by arrivals on a random walk. The scaling limit of the result, empirically, is a fractal with dimension strictly less than dd. Very little has been shown rigorously about the process, however. We study an analogous process on the Boolean lattice {0,1}n\{0,1\}^n, in which particles take random decreasing walks from (1,,1)(1,\dots,1), and stick at the last vertex before they encounter an occupied site for the first time; the vertex (0,,0)(0,\dots,0) is initially occupied. In this model, we can rigorously prove that lower levels of the lattice become full, and that the process ends by producing an isolated path of unbounded length reaching (1,,1)(1,\dots,1).

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@article{arxiv.1705.00692,
  title  = {Diffusion limited aggregation in the Boolean lattice},
  author = {Alan Frieze and Wesley Pegden},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.00692},
  year   = {2017}
}

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25 pages

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