Statistical self-similarity of one-dimensional growth processes

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DOI10.1016/S0378-4371(99)00517-8zbMATH Open0976.82042arXivcond-mat/9910273OpenAlexW2118682732MaRDI QIDQ5952476FDOQ5952476


Authors: Michael Prähofer, Herbert Spohn Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 13 January 2002

Published in: Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For one-dimensional growth processes we consider the distribution of the height above a given point of the substrate and study its scale invariance in the limit of large times. We argue that for self-similar growth from a single seed the universal distribution is the Tracy-Widom distribution from the theory of random matrices and that for growth from a flat substrate it is some other, only numerically determined distribution. In particular, for the polynuclear growth model in the droplet geometry the height maps onto the longest increasing subsequence of a random permutation, from which the height distribution is identified as the Tracy-Widom distribution.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9910273




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