Abstract
The “method of compounding moments” devised by Van Kampen is used to study the spatial fluctuations in a model describing the irreversible formation of clusters. The reaction and diffusion constants in this model are chosenindependent of the cluster sizes. For a monodisperse initial distribution explicit expressions are calculated for the equal-time and two-time correlation functions of the concentrations ofm- andn-mers. For general initial conditions the fluctuations in the mass density are considered and a scaling theory is presented for the fluctuations at large times. Extensions to more general models are discussed.
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