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Breakdown of the Universality Hypothesis in Directed Abelian Sandpile Models

Condensed Matter 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We show that in a broad class of directed abelian sandpile models that had been expected to have the same exponents as the Dhar-Ramaswamy model, the avalanche exponent depends upon the details of the interaction, calling into question the general existence of universality classes in self organized critical models.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9806310,
  title  = {Breakdown of the Universality Hypothesis in Directed Abelian Sandpile Models},
  author = {Rick Tully and George Reiter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9806310},
  year   = {2007}
}