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Tropical curves in sandpiles

Combinatorics 2017-03-22 v2 Algebraic Geometry Dynamical Systems Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We study a sandpile model on the set of the lattice points in a large lattice polygon. A small perturbation ψ\psi of the maximal stable state μ3\mu\equiv 3 is obtained by adding extra grains at several points. It appears, that the result ψ\psi^\circ of the relaxation of ψ\psi coincides with μ\mu almost everywhere; the set where ψμ\psi^\circ\ne \mu is called the deviation locus. The scaling limit of the deviation locus turns out to be a distinguished tropical curve passing through the perturbation points. Nous consid\'erons le mod\`ele du tas de sable sur l'ensemble des points entiers d'un polygone entier. En ajoutant des grains de sable en certains points, on obtient une perturbation mineure de la configuration stable maximale μ3\mu\equiv 3. Le r\'esultat ψ\psi^\circ de la relaxation est presque partout \'egal \`a μ\mu. On appelle lieu de d\'eviation l'ensemble des points o\`u ψμ\psi^\circ\ne \mu. La limite au sens de la distance de Hausdorff du lieu de d\'eviation est une courbe tropicale sp\'eciale, qui passe par les points de perturbation.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1509.02303,
  title  = {Tropical curves in sandpiles},
  author = {Nikita Kalinin and Mikhail Shkolnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.02303},
  year   = {2017}
}

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small corrections

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