Poissonian rain coloring and a self-similar process of coalescing planar partitions

Poissonian rain coloring and a self-similar process of coalescing planar partitions

Probability Seminar
Feb 22, 2017, 03:10 PM - 04:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
David Aldous, U. C. Berkeley
Plant differently colored points in the plane; then let random points (``Poisson rain") fall, and give each new point the color of the nearest existing point. Previous investigation and simulations strongly suggest that the colored regions converge (in some sense) to a random partition of the plane. We prove a weak version of this.