Cylindrical Hastings Levitov

Abstract

We define a Hastings-Levitov(0) process on a cylinder and prove that the process converges to Stationary Hastings Levitov(0) under appropriate particle size scaling that depends on the radius of the cylinder. The Stationary Hastings Levitov(0) was shown by Berger, Procaccia and Turner to admit tight particle sizes, without a priori particle size normalization, thus it serves as a good model for the phenomenon of diffusion limited aggregation. Technical challenge, in this paper, is in taking the spatial limit together with the correct slit map normalization. This result also shows that the early life of the Hastings Levitov(0) process in the small particle limit, spatially scaled so the slits have unit length, behaves like the Stationary Hastings Levitov(0).