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Lattices in Chip-Firing

Combinatorics 2020-10-30 v1

Abstract

We analyze the poset of moves in chip-firing, as defined by Klivans and Liscio. Answering a question of Propp, we show that the move poset forms the join-irreducibles of the poset of configurations. The proof involves a graph augmentation and an analysis of configurations in which only one firing move is available. We then use this framework to analyze the problem of chip-firing on a line, where the move poset is relevant to the problem of labeled chip-firing.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2010.15650,
  title  = {Lattices in Chip-Firing},
  author = {Patrick Liscio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.15650},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

11 pages, 7 figures

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