title: Scale-invariant growth processes in expanding space.
abstract: Many growth processes lead to intriguing stochastic patterns and complex fractal structures which exhibit local scale invariance properties. Such structures can often be described effectively by space-time trajectories of interacting particles, and their large scale behavior depends on the overall growth geometry. We establish an exact relation between statistical properties of structures in uniformly expanding and fixed geometries, which preserves the local scale invariance and is independent of other properties such as the dimensionality. This relation generalizes standard conformal transformations as the natural symmetry of self-affine growth processes. We illustrate our main result numerically for various structures of coalescing Lévy flights and fractional Brownian motions, including also branching and finite particle sizes. One of the main benefits of this approach is a full, explicit description of the asymptotic statistics in expanding domains, which are often nontrivial and random due to amplification of initial fluctuations.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Complexity Science, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Adnan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ali
authors.forename: Robin C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Ball
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Grosskinsky
authors.forename: Ellák
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Somfai
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004058:Diffusion; D008956:Models, Chemical; D015233:Models, Statistical