English

Chip-Firing and Rotor-Routing on Directed Graphs

Combinatorics 2015-03-13 v4

Abstract

We give a rigorous and self-contained survey of the abelian sandpile model and rotor-router model on finite directed graphs, highlighting the connections between them. We present several intriguing open problems.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0801.3306,
  title  = {Chip-Firing and Rotor-Routing on Directed Graphs},
  author = {Alexander E. Holroyd and Lionel Levine and Karola Meszaros and Yuval Peres and James Propp and David B. Wilson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.3306},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

34 pages, 11 figures. v2 has additional references, v3 corrects figure 9, v4 corrects several typos

R2 v1 2026-06-21T10:05:07.079Z