Hack's law in a drainage network model: a Brownian web approach

DOI10.1214/15-AAP1134zbMATH Open1344.60017arXiv1501.01382MaRDI QIDQ303974FDOQ303974

Authors: Rahul Roy, Kumarjit Saha, Anish Sarkar 

Publication date: 23 August 2016

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Hack [Studies of longitudinal stream profiles in Virginia and Maryland (1957). Report], while studying the drainage system in the Shenandoah valley and the adjacent mountains of Virginia, observed a power law relation $lsim{a}^{0.6}$ between the length $l$ of a stream from its source to a divide and the area $a$ of the basin that collects the precipitation contributing to the stream as tributaries. We study the tributary structure of Howard's drainage network model of headward growth and branching studied by Gangopadhyay, Roy and Sarkar [Ann. Appl. Probab. 14 (2004) 1242-1266]. We show that the exponent of Hack's law is $2/3$ for Howard's model. Our study is based on a scaling of the process whereby the limit of the watershed area of a stream is area of a Brownian excursion process. To obtain this, we define a dual of the model and show that under diffusive scaling, both the original network and its dual converge jointly to the standard Brownian web and its dual.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01382

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zbMATH Keywords

Brownian excursionBrownian meanderBrownian webHack's law

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05)

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