A necklace of Wulff shapes

DOI10.1007/S10955-005-8019-5MaRDI QIDQ2494498zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors François Dunlop, Joël De Coninck, Thierry E. Huillet

Publication date 28 June 2006

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0505439

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Processes in random environments (60K37) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B24)

Abstract: In a probabilistic model of a film over a disordered substrate, Monte-Carlo simulations show that the film hangs from peaks of the substrate. The film profile is well approximated by a necklace of Wulff shapes. Such a necklace can be obtained as the infimum of a collection of Wulff shapes resting on the substrate. When the random substrate is given by iid heights with exponential distribution, we prove estimates on the probability density of the resulting peaks, at small density.

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