Growth Exponents with 3.99 Walkers

Abstract

It is argued that the dielectric-breakdown model has an upper critical ${\eta }_c$ equal to 4, for which the clusters become one-dimensional. A renormalization group treatment of the model is presented near the critical $\eta$.

13 pages, 2 figures; corrected references, minor corrections; minor corrections, final version

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