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Abelian sandpiles on Sierpinski gasket graphs

Combinatorics 2022-09-08 v1 Probability

Abstract

The aim of the current work is to investigate structural properties of the sandpile group of a special class of self-similar graphs. More precisely, we consider Abelian sandpiles on Sierpinski gasket graphs and for the choice of normal boundary conditions, we give a characterization of the identity element and a recursive description of the sandpile group. Finally, we consider Abelian sandpile Markov chains on the aforementioned graphs and we improve the existing bounds on the speed of convergence to stationarity.

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@article{arxiv.2209.03169,
  title  = {Abelian sandpiles on Sierpinski gasket graphs},
  author = {Robin Kaiser and Ecaterina Sava-Huss and Yuwen Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.03169},
  year   = {2022}
}