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The Apollonian structure of integer superharmonic matrices

Analysis of PDEs 2017-07-18 v4 Number Theory Probability

Abstract

We prove that the set of quadratic growths attainable by integer-valued superharmonic functions on the lattice Z2\mathbb{Z}^2 has the structure of an Apollonian circle packing. This completely characterizes the PDE which determines the continuum scaling limit of the Abelian sandpile on the lattice Z2\mathbb{Z}^2.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1309.3267,
  title  = {The Apollonian structure of integer superharmonic matrices},
  author = {Lionel Levine and Wesley Pegden and Charles K. Smart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.3267},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

56 pages, many figures. Typo in T1.1 corrected (2 -> 0)

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