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Logarithmic fluctuations for internal DLA

Probability 2015-03-17 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Let each of n particles starting at the origin in Z^2 perform simple random walk until reaching a site with no other particles. Lawler, Bramson, and Griffeath proved that the resulting random set A(n) of n occupied sites is (with high probability) close to a disk B_r of radius r=\sqrt{n/\pi}. We show that the discrepancy between A(n) and the disk is at most logarithmic in the radius: i.e., there is an absolute constant C such that the following holds with probability one: B_{r - C \log r} \subset A(\pi r^2) \subset B_{r+ C \log r} for all sufficiently large r.

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@article{arxiv.1010.2483,
  title  = {Logarithmic fluctuations for internal DLA},
  author = {David Jerison and Lionel Levine and Scott Sheffield},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.2483},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

38 pages, 5 figures, v2 addresses referee comments. To appear in Journal of the AMS

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