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Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Praehofer , Herbert Spohn

Recent researches on complex systems highlighted the so-called super-linear growth phenomenon. As the system size $P$ measured as population in cities or active users in online communities increases, the total activities $X$ measured as GDP…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-12-21 Jiang Zhang

A $0/1$-polytope in $\mathbb{R}^n$ is the convex hull of a subset of $\{0,1\}^n$. The graph of a polytope $P$ is the graph whose vertices are the zero-dimensional faces of $P$ and whose edges are the one-dimensional faces of $P$. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Asaf Ferber , Michael Krivelevich , Marcelo Sales , Wojciech Samotij

An analytical model for the evolution of the boundary of the new phase in transformations ruled by nucleation and growth is presented. Both homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation have been considered: The former includes transformations…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-26 Massimo Tomellini

We obtain general bounds on scattering processes involving charged particles in 1+1 spacetime dimensions. After a general analysis we derive mostly numerical bounds on couplings in theories with $O(N)$ and $U(N)$ global symmetries. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-25 Miguel F. Paulos , Zechuan Zheng

We introduce a self-organized surface growth model in 2+1 dimensions with anisotropic avalanche process, which is expected to be in the universality class of the anisotropic quenched Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation with alternative signs of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 HaWoong Jeong , ByungNam Kahng , Doochul Kim

In this paper, we explore how geometric structures can be grown exponentially fast. The studied processes start from an initial shape and apply a sequence of centralized growth operations to grow other shapes. We focus on the case where the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Nada Almalki , Siddharth Gupta , Othon Michail

We introduce a model for a growing random graph based on simultaneous reproduction of the vertices. The model can be thought of as a generalisation of the reproducing graphs of Southwell and Cannings and Bonato et al to allow for a random…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-04-20 Jonathan Jordan

A model for kinetic roughening of one-dimensional interfaces is presented within an intrinsic geometry framework that is free from the standard small-slope and no-overhang approximations. The model is meant to probe the consequences of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-06-02 Javier Rodriguez-Laguna , Silvia N. Santalla , Rodolfo Cuerno

A stochastic partial differential equation along the lines of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation is introduced for the evolution of a growing interface in a radial geometry. Regular polygon solutions as well as radially symmetric solutions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 M. T. Batchelor , B. I. Henry , S. D. Watt

The Hammersley process relates to the statistical properties of the maximum length of all up/right paths connecting random points of a given density in the unit square from (0,0) to (1,1). This process can also be interpreted in terms of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter J. Forrester

Matter exhibits phases and their transitions. These transitions are classified as first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) and continuous ones. While the latter has a well-established theory of the renormalization group, the former is only…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-14 Fan Zhong

Matter exhibits phases and their transitions. These transitions are classified as first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) and continuous ones. While the latter has a well-established theory of the renormalization group, the former is only…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-17 Fan Zhong

In this paper, a two-dimensional model for the growth of multi-layer tumors is presented. The model consists of a free boundary problem for the tumor cell membrane and the tumor is supposed to grow or shrink due to cell proliferation or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-11 Martin Kohlmann

This research aims to develop kernel GNG, a kernelized version of the growing neural gas (GNG) algorithm, and to investigate the features of the networks generated by the kernel GNG. The GNG is an unsupervised artificial neural network that…

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In this paper, we analyze the decision version of the NK landscape model from the perspective of threshold phenomena and phase transitions under two random distributions, the uniform probability model and the fixed ratio model. For the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-24 J. Culberson , Y. Gao

Nucleation and growth is the dominant relaxation mechanism driving first order phase transitions. In two-dimensional at systems nucleation has been applied to a wide range of problems in physics, chemistry and biology. Here we study…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-09 Leopoldo R. Gomez , Nicolas A. Garcia , Vincenzo Vitelli , Jose Lorenzana , Daniel A. Vega

A one-dimensional cellular automaton with a probabilistic evolution rule can generate stochastic surface growth in $(1 + 1)$ dimensions. Two such discrete models of surface growth are constructed from a probabilistic cellular automaton…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Pratip Bhattacharyya

We consider a diffuse interface model for tumor growth consisting of a Cahn--Hilliard equation with source terms coupled to a reaction-diffusion equation, which models a tumor growing in the presence of a nutrient species and surrounded by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam

In this article we prove several new uniform upper bounds on the number of points of bounded height on varieties over $\mathbb{F}_q[t]$. For projective curves, we prove the analogue of Walsh' result with polynomial dependence on $q$ and the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-27 Floris Vermeulen