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The odometer in subcritical activated random walk

Probability 2025-11-04 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We consider the activated random walk particle system, a model of self-organized criticality, on Z\mathbb{Z} with i.i.d.-Bernoulli initial configuration. We show that at subcritical density, the system's odometer function, which counts the number of actions taken at each site, has a stretched exponential tail. It follows that the expected odometer at each site is finite.

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@article{arxiv.2510.05514,
  title  = {The odometer in subcritical activated random walk},
  author = {Tobias Johnson and Jacob Richey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.05514},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

12 pages; minor restructuring and changes to expository text

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