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Internal aggregation models with multiple sources and obstacle problems on Sierpinski gaskets

Probability 2023-08-08 v2 Functional Analysis

Abstract

We consider the doubly infinite Sierpinski gasket graph SG0SG_0, rescale it by factor 2n2^{-n}, and on the rescaled graphs SGn=2nSG0SG_n=2^{-n}SG_0, for every nNn\in \mathbb{N}, we investigate the limit shape of three aggregation models with initial configuration σn\sigma_n of particles supported on multiple vertices. The models under consideration are: divisible sandpile in which the excess mass is distributed among the vertices until each vertex is stable and has mass less or equal to one, internal DLA in which particles do random walks until finding an empty site, and rotor aggregation in which particles perform deterministic counterparts of random walks until finding an empty site. We denote by SG=cl(n=0SGn)SG=cl(\cup_{n=0}^{\infty} SG_n) the infinite Sierpinski gasket, which is a closed subset of R2\mathbb{R}^2, for which SGnSG_n represents the level-n approximating graph, and we consider a continuous function σ:SGN\sigma:SG\to\mathbb{N}. For σ\sigma we solve the obstacle problem and we describe the noncoincidence set DSGD\subset SG as the solution of a free boundary problem on the fractal SGSG. If the discrete particle configurations σn\sigma_n on the approximating graphs SGnSG_n converge pointwise to the continuous function σ\sigma on the limit set SGSG, we prove that, as nn\to\infty, the scaling limits of the three aforementioned models on SGnSG_n starting with initial particle configuration σn\sigma_n converge to the deterministic solution DD of the free boundary problem on the limit set SGR2SG\subset\mathbb{R}^2. For DD we also investigate boundary regularity properties.

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@article{arxiv.2212.11647,
  title  = {Internal aggregation models with multiple sources and obstacle problems on Sierpinski gaskets},
  author = {Uta Freiberg and Nico Heizmann and Robin Kaiser and Ecaterina Sava-Huss},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.11647},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

to appear in Journal of Fractal Geometry (2023)

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