Explosive growth for a constrained Hastings-Levitov aggregation model

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We consider a constrained version of the HL(0) Hastings-Levitov model of aggregation in the complex plane, in which particles can only attach to the part of the cluster that has already been grown. Although one might expect that this gives rise to a non-trivial limiting shape, we prove that the cluster grows explosively: in the upper half plane, the aggregate accumulates infinite diameter as soon as it reaches positive capacity. More precisely, we show that after nt particles of (half-plane) capacity 1/(2n) have attached, the diameter of the shape is highly concentrated around root t log n, uniformly in t is an element of[0, T]. This illustrates a new instability phenomenon for the growth of single trees/fjords in unconstrained HL(0).

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