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Relaxation in one-dimensional tropical sandpile

Combinatorics 2024-02-14 v5 Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems

Abstract

A relaxation in the tropical sandpile model is a process of deforming a tropical hypersurface towards a finite collection of points. We show that, in the one-dimensional case, a relaxation terminates after a finite number of steps. We present experimental evidence suggesting that the number of such steps obeys a power law.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2203.11763,
  title  = {Relaxation in one-dimensional tropical sandpile},
  author = {Mikhail Shkolnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.11763},
  year   = {2024}
}
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