Dimension of diffusion-limited aggregates grown on a line.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
Diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA) has served for 40 years as a paradigmatic example for the creation of fractal growth patterns. In spite of thousands of references, no exact result for the fractal dimension D of DLA is known. In this Letter we announce an exact result for off-lattice DLA grown on a line embedded in the plane D=3/2. The result relies on representing DLA with iterated conformal maps, allowing one to prove self-affinity, a proper scaling limit, and a well-defined fractal dimension. Mathematical proofs of the main results are available in N. Berger, E. B. Procaccia, and A. Turner, Growth of stationary Hastings-Levitov, arXiv:2008.05792.