We define and study a fractional Gaussian field $X$ with Hurst parameter $H$ on the Sierpiński gasket $K$ equipped with its Hausdorff measure $μ$. It appears as a solution, in a weak sense, of the equation $(-Δ)^s X =W$ where $W$ is a Gaussian white noise on $L_0^2(K,μ)$, $Δ$ the Laplacian on $K$ and $s= \frac{d_h+2H}{2d_w}$, where $d_h$ is the Hausdorff dimension of $K$ and $d_w$ its walk dimension. The construction of those fields is then extended to other fractals including the Sierpiński carpet.
We determine the walk dimension of the Sierpiński gasket without using diffusion. We construct non-local regular Dirichlet forms on the Sierpiński gasket from regular Dirichlet forms on the Sierpiński graph whose suitable boundary is the Sierpiński gasket.
We study energy measures of canonical Dirichlet forms on inhomogeneous Sierpinski gaskets. We prove that the energy measures and suitable reference measures are mutually singular under mild assumptions.
We prove that loop-erased random walks on finite pre-Sierpinski gaskets can be extended to the infinite pre-Sierpinski gasket by virtue of the `erasing-larger-loops-first' method, and obtain the asymptotic behavior of the walk as the number of steps increases, in particular, the displacement exponent and a law of the iterated logarithm.
We confirm, in a more general framework, a part of the conjecture posed by R. Bell, C.-W. Ho, and R. S. Strichartz [Energy measures of harmonic functions on the Sierpiński gasket, Indiana Univ. Math. J. 63 (2014), 831--868] on the distribution of energy measures for the canonical Dirichlet form on the two-dimensional standard Sierpinski gasket.
We obtain the Lifschitz tail asymptotics for the integrated density of states of the subordinate $α-$stable processes on the Sierpiński gasket $\mathcal G,$ evolving among killing Poissonian obstacles. Simultaneously, we derive the large-time asymptotics for the volume of the $α-$stable sausage on the gasket.
Internal diffusion limited aggregation (IDLA) is a random aggregation model on a graph $G$, whose clusters are formed by random walks started in the origin (some fixed vertex) and stopped upon visiting a previously unvisited site. On the Sierpinski gasket graph the asymptotic shape is known to be a ball in the usual graph metric. In this paper we establish bounds for the fluctuations of the cluster from its asymptotic shape.
We consider a model of loop-erased random walks on the finite pre-Sierpinski gasket which permits rigorous analysis. We prove the existence of the scaling limit and show that the path of the limiting process is almost surely self-avoiding, while having Hausdorff dimension strictly greater than 1. This result means that the path has infinitely fine creases, while having no self-intersection. Our loop-erasing procedure is formulated by a `larger-scale-loops-first' rule. It enables us to obtain exact recursion relations, making use of `self-similarity' of a fractal structure.
We investigate bond percolation on the iterated barycentric subdivision of a triangle, the hexacarpet, and the non-p.c.f. Sierpinski gasket. With the use of the diamond fractal, we are able to bound the critical probability of percolation on the non-p.c.f. gasket and the iterated barycentric subdivision of a triangle from above by 0.282. We then show how both the gasket and hexacarpet fractals are related via the iterated barycentric subdivisions of a triangle: the two spaces exhibit duality properties although they are not themselves dual graphs. Finally we show the existence of a non-trivial…
We show that the `erasing-larger-loops-first' (ELLF) method, which was first introduced for erasing loops from the simple random walk on the Sierpinski gasket, does work also for non-Markov random walks, in particular, self-repelling walks to construct a new family of self-avoiding walks on the Sierpinski gasket. The one-parameter family constructed in this method continuously connects the loop-erased random walk and a self-avoiding walk which has the same asymptotic behavior as the `standard' self-avoiding walk. We prove the existence of the scaling limit and study some path properties: The e…
We prove the existence of the integrated density of states for subordinate Brownian motions in presence of the Poissonian random potentials on the Sierpiński gasket.
We establish the Lifschitz-type singularity around the bottom of the spectrum for the integrated density of states for a class of subordinate Brownian motions in presence of the nonnegative Poissonian random potentials, possibly of infinite range, on the Sierpiński gasket. We also study the long-time behaviour for the corresponding averaged Feynman-Kac functionals.
We obtain the equilibrium fluctuations for the empirical density of particles for the zero-range process in the Sierpinski gasket. The limiting process is a generalized Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process generated by the Neumann Laplacian and its corresponding Dirichlet form on the gasket.
The divisible sandpile model is a growth model on graphs that was introduced by Levine and Peres as a tool to study internal diffusion limited aggregation. In this work we investigate the shape of the divisible sandpile model on the graphical Sierpinski gasket SG. We show that the shape is a ball in the graph metric of SG. Moreover we give an exact representation of the odometer function of the divisible sandpile.
The aim of the current work is to investigate structural properties of the sandpile group of a special class of self-similar graphs. More precisely, we consider Abelian sandpiles on Sierpinski gasket graphs and for the choice of normal boundary conditions, we give a characterization of the identity element and a recursive description of the sandpile group. Finally, we consider Abelian sandpile Markov chains on the aforementioned graphs and we improve the existing bounds on the speed of convergence to stationarity.
We prove that the hydrodynamic limit of a zero-range process evolving in graphs approximating the Sierpinski gasket is given by a nonlinear heat equation. We also prove existence and uniqueness of the hydrodynamic equation by considering a finite-difference scheme.
We consider the discrete time quantum random walks on a Sierpinski gasket. We study the hitting probability as the level of fractal goes to infinity in terms of their localization exponents $β_w$ , total variation exponents $δ_w$ and relative entropy exponents $η_w$ . We define and solve the amplitude Green functions recursively when the level of the fractal graph goes to infinity. We obtain exact recursive formulas for the amplitude Green functions, based on which the hitting probabilities and expectation of the first-passage time are calculated. Using the recursive formula with the aid of Mo…
In 2012 Lau and Ngai, motivated by the work of Denker and Sato, gave an example of an isotropic Markov chain on the set of finite words over a three letter alphabet, whose Martin boundary is homeomorphic to the Sierpiński gasket. Here, we extend the results of Lau and Ngai to a class of non-isotropic Markov chains. We determine the Martin boundary and show that the minimal Martin boundary is a proper subset of the Martin boundary. In addition, we give a description of the set of harmonic functions.
The family of $V$-variable fractals provides a means of interpolating between two families of random fractals previously considered in the literature; scale irregular fractals ($V=1$) and random recursive fractals ($V=\infty$). We consider a class of $V$-variable affine nested fractals based on the Sierpinski gasket with a general class of measures. We calculate the spectral exponent for a general measure and find the spectral dimension for these fractals. We show that the spectral properties and on-diagonal heat kernel estimates for $V$-variable fractals are closer to those of scale irregular…
We derive the macroscopic laws that govern the evolution of the density of particles in the exclusion process on the Sierpinski gasket in the presence of a variable speed boundary. We obtain, at the hydrodynamics level, the heat equation evolving on the Sierpinski gasket with either Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions, depending on whether the reservoirs are fast or slow. For a particular strength of the boundary dynamics we obtain linear Robin boundary conditions. As for the fluctuations, we prove that, when starting from the stationary measure, namely the product Bernoulli measure in th…
Internal diffusion-limited aggregation (IDLA) is a stochastic growth model on a graph $G$ which describes the formation of a random set of vertices growing from the origin (some fixed vertex) of $G$. Particles start at the origin and perform simple random walks; each particle moves until it lands on a site which was not previously visited by other particles. This random set of occupied sites in $G$ is called the IDLA cluster. In this paper we consider IDLA on Sierpinski gasket graphs, and show that the IDLA cluster fills balls (in the graph metric) with probability 1.
The magnetic Laplacian (also called the line bundle Laplacian) on a connected weighted graph is a self-adjoint operator wherein the real-valued adjacency weights are replaced by unit complex-valued weights $\{ω_{xy}\}_{xy\in E}$, satisfying the condition that $ω_{xy}=\overline{ω_{yx}}$ for every directed edge $xy$. When properly interpreted, these complex weights give rise to magnetic fluxes through cycles in the graph. In this paper we establish the spectrum of the magnetic Laplacian, as a set of real numbers with multiplicities, on the Sierpinski gasket graph ($SG$) where the magnetic fluxes…
We construct a Sierpinski carpet like fractal, on which a self-similar diffusion with sub-Gaussian heat kernel estimate does not exist, in contrast to previous researches on the existence of such diffusions, on the generalized Sierpinski carpets and recently introduced unconstrained Sierpinski carpets.
We consider a trace theorem for self-similar Dirichlet forms on self-similar sets to self-similar subsets. In particular, we characterize the trace of the domains of Dirichlet forms on the Sierpinski gaskets and the Sierpinski carpets to their boundaries, where boundaries mean the triangles and rectangles which confine gaskets and carpets. As an application, we construct diffusion processes on a collection of fractals called fractal fields, which behave as the appropriate fractal diffusion within each fractal component of the field.
We establish quantitative spherical shape theorems for rotor-router aggregation and abelian sandpile growth on the graphical Sierpinski gasket ($SG$) when particles are launched from the corner vertex. In particular, the abelian sandpile growth problem is exactly solved via a recursive construction of self-similar sandpile tiles. We show that sandpile growth and patterns exhibit a $(2\cdot 3^n)$-periodicity as a function of the initial mass. Moreover, the cluster explodes---increments by more than 1 in radius---at periodic intervals, a phenomenon not seen on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ or trees. We explici…
