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Internal DLA and the Gaussian free field

Probability 2015-01-14 v2 Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

In previous works, we showed that the internal DLA cluster on \Z^d with t particles is a.s. spherical up to a maximal error of O(\log t) if d=2 and O(\sqrt{\log t}) if d > 2. This paper addresses "average error": in a certain sense, the average deviation of internal DLA from its mean shape is of constant order when d=2 and of order r^{1-d/2} (for a radius r cluster) in general. Appropriately normalized, the fluctuations (taken over time and space) scale to a variant of the Gaussian free field.

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@article{arxiv.1101.0596,
  title  = {Internal DLA and the Gaussian free field},
  author = {David Jerison and Lionel Levine and Scott Sheffield},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.0596},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

29 pages, minor revision

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