Perturbed divisible sandpiles and quadrature surfaces

DOI10.1007/S11118-018-9722-6MaRDI QIDQ2009089zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Hayk Aleksanyan, Henrik Shahgholian

Publication date 27 November 2019

Published in Potential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.07568

zbMATH Keywords

free boundary problemsLaplacian growth modelsquadrature surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete potential theory (31C20) Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35)

Abstract: The main purpose of the present paper is to establish a link between quadrature surfaces (potential theoretic concept) and sandpile dynamics (Laplacian growth models). For this aim, we introduce a new model of Laplacian growth on the lattice $mathbb{Z}^d$ $(dgeq2)$ which continuously deforms occupied regions of the emph{divisible sandpile} model of Levine and Peres, by redistributing the total mass of the system onto $frac1m$-sub-level sets of the odometer which is a function counting total emissions of mass from lattice vertices. In free boundary terminology this goes in parallel with singular perturbation, which is known to converge to a Bernoulli type free boundary. We prove that models, generated from a single source, have a scaling limit, if the threshold $m$ is fixed. Moreover, this limit is a ball, and the entire mass of the system is being redistributed onto an annular ring of thickness $frac1m$. By compactness argument we show that, when $m$ tends to infinity sufficiently slowly with respect to the scale of the model, then in this case also there is scaling limit which is a ball, with the mass of the system being uniformly distributed onto the boundary of that ball, and hence we recover a quadrature surface in this case. Depending on the speed of decay of $m$, the visited set of the sandpile interpolates between spherical and polygonal shapes. Finding a precise characterisation of this shape-transition phenomenon seems to be a considerable challenge, which we cannot address at this moment.

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