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 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.
Cite
@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