Gaussian fluctuations for Internal DLA on cylinders

Abstract

Internal DLA is a discrete random growth model describing growing clusters of particles. Its limiting shape and fluctuations are well understood when the underlying graph is the $d$-dimensional lattice or the cylinder $\mathbb{Z}_N \times \mathbb{Z}$. In the latter geometry, the average fluctuations of IDLA have been shown to converge to the GFF. In this note we generalise this result by showing that, for any vertex-transitive base graph $V_N$ satisfying an eigenvalue convergence condition, the average fluctuations of IDLA on the cylinder $V_N \times \mathbb{Z}$ are given by a GFF. On the way, we present an improved bound on the clusters' maximal fluctuations, which is of independent interest and which implies a shape theorem for IDLA on $V_N \times \mathbb{Z}$ for any vertex-transitive base graph $V_N$.