Border aggregation model

Abstract: Start with a graph with a subset of vertices called {\it the border}. A particle released from the origin performs a random walk on the graph until it comes to the immediate neighbourhood of the border, at which point it joins this subset thus increasing the border by one point. Then a new particle is released from the origin and the process repeats until the origin becomes a part of the border itself. We are interested in the total number $\xi$ of particles to be released by this final moment. We show that this model covers OK Corral model as well as the erosion model, and obtain distributions and bounds for $\xi$ in cases where the graph is star graph, regular tree, and a $d-$dimensional lattice.