Diffusion limited aggregation on the Boolean lattice

Citation
Frieze Alan et Pegden Wesley, Diffusion limited aggregation on the Boolean lattice, Annals of applied probability , 28(6), 2018, pp. 3528-3557
ISSN journal
10505164
Volume
28
Issue
6
Year of publication
2018
Pages
3528 - 3557
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
In the Diffusion Limited Aggregation (DLA) process on .2, or more generally .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 d.Very little has been shown rigorously about the process, however.We study an analogous process on the Boolean lattice {0,1}n, in which particles take random decreasing walks from (1,.,1), and stick at the last vertex before they encounter an occupied site for the first time; the vertex (0,.,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).