Sandpile models
Probability
2018-09-13 v3 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
This survey is an extended version of lectures given at the Cornell Probability Summer School 2013. The fundamental facts about the Abelian sandpile model on a finite graph and its connections to related models are presented. We discuss exactly computable results via Majumdar and Dhar's method. The main ideas of Priezzhev's computation of the height probabilities in 2D are also presented, including explicit error estimates involved in passing to the limit of the infinite lattice. We also discuss various questions arising on infinite graphs, such as convergence to a sandpile measure, and stabilizability of infinite configurations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1401.0354,
title = {Sandpile models},
author = {Antal A. Járai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.0354},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
72 pages - v3 incorporates referee's comments. References closely related to the lectures were added/updated