Abstract

Irreversible fractal growth models like DLA and DBM have confronted us with theoretical problems of a new type that cannot be described in terms of the standard concepts like field theory and the renormalization group. The Fixed Scale Transformation is a theoretical scheme of a new type that is able to treat these problems in a reasonably systematic way. The idea is to focus on the dynamics at a given scale and to compute accurately the correlations at this scale by suitable lattice path integrals. The use of scale invariant growth rules then allows the generalization of these correlations to coarse-grained cells of any size and therefore to obtain the fractal dimension. We summarize the present status of the FST approach by focusing on the most recent results about the scale invariant dynamics of DLA/DBM. The possible extensions to other problems like the sand pile model (self-organized-criticality) and simplified models of turbulence will also be considered.

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