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Chip-firing is a combinatorial game played on a graph, in which chips are placed and dispersed on the vertices until a stable configuration is achieved. We study a chip-firing variant on an infinite, rooted directed $k$-ary tree, where we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Ryota Inagaki , Tanya Khovanova , Austin Luo

Chip-firing is a combinatorial game on a graph, in which chips are placed and dispersed among its vertices until a stable configuration is achieved. We specifically study a chip-firing variant on an infinite, rooted, directed $k$-ary tree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Ryota Inagaki , Tanya Khovanova , Austin Luo

Chip-firing is a combinatorial game played on a graph in which we place and disperse chips on vertices until a stable state is reached. We study a chip-firing variant played on an infinite rooted directed $k$-ary tree, where we place…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Ryota Inagaki , Tanya Khovanova , Austin Luo

We investigate a variant of the chip-firing process on the infinite path graph: rather than treating the chips as indistinguishable, we label them with positive integers. To fire an unstable vertex, i.e. a vertex with more than one chip, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Sam Hopkins , Thomas McConville , James Propp

Chip-firing is a combinatorial game played on an undirected graph in which we place chips on vertices. We study chip-firing on an infinite binary tree in which we add a self-loop to the root to ensure each vertex has degree 3. A vertex can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Ryota Inagaki , Tanya Khovanova , Austin Luo

Chip-firing on a directed graph is a game in which chips, a discrete commodity, are placed on the vertices of the graph and are transferred between vertices. In this paper, we study a chip-firing game on the Hasse diagram of the lattice of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Ryota Inagaki , Tanya Khovanova , Austin Luo

We use an infinite $k$-ary tree with a self-loop at the root as our underlying graph. We consider a chip-firing process starting with $N$ chips at the root. We describe the stable configurations. We calculate the number of fires for each…

We introduce a natural variant of the parallel chip-firing game, called the diffusion game. Chips are initially assigned to vertices of a graph. At every step, all vertices simultaneously send one chip to each neighbour with fewer chips. As…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 C. Duffy , T. F. Lidbetter , M. E. Messinger , R. J. Nowakowski

This article introduces a quantized chip-firing model with close connections to the theory of rational lattice paths and rational parking functions. Given a graph with a sink and positive integers a,b,c with gcd(a,b)=1, a set S of vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Spencer Backman , Nicholas A. Loehr , Gregory S. Warrington

We study a variant of the chip-firing game called \emph{diffusion}. In diffusion on a graph, each vertex of the graph is initially labelled with an integer interpreted as the number of chips at that vertex, and at each subsequent step, each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Jason Long , Bhargav Narayanan

A finite graph with an assignment of non-negative integers to vertices gives chip-firing games. Chip-firing games determine languages (sets of words) called the record sets of legal games. Bj\"orner, Lov\'asz and Shor found several…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Kentaro Akasaka , Suguru Ishibashi , Masahiko Yoshinaga

In 2016, Hopkins, McConville, and Propp proved that labeled chip-firing on a line always leaves the chips in sorted order if the number of chips is even. We present a novel proof of this result. We then apply our methods to resolve a number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Caroline Klivans , Patrick Liscio

We study chip-firing on a signed graph $G_\phi$, employing a general theory of chip-firing on invertible matrices introduced by Guzm\'an and Klivans. Here a negative edge designates an adversarial relationship, so that firing a vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Matthew Cho , Anton Dochtermann , Ryota Inagaki , Suho Oh , Dylan Snustad , Bailee Zacovic

The Chip Firing Game (CFG) is a discrete dynamical model used in physics, computer science and economics. It is known that the set of configurations reachable from an initial configuration (this set is called the configuration space) can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Clemence Magnien , Ha Duong Phan , Laurent Vuillon

We study a variant of the chip-firing game called the diffusion game. In the diffusion game, we begin with some integer labelling of the vertices of a graph, interpreted as a number of chips on each vertex, and then for each subsequent step…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Andrew Carlotti , Rebekah Herrman

We study a particular chip-firing process on an infinite path graph. At any time when there are at least $a+b$ chips at a vertex, $a$ chips fire to the left and $b$ chips fire to the right. We describe the final state of this process when…

We propose a generalization of the graphical chip-firing model allowing for the redistribution dynamics to be governed by any invertible integer matrix while maintaining the long term critical, superstable, and energy minimizing behavior of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-19 Johnny Guzman , Caroline Klivans

We present a self-contained introduction to the theory of chip-firing games on metric graphs, as well as the more recent theory of tropical Prym varieties. We briefly discuss the connection between these notions and their algebraic…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Yoav Len

In this paper, we consider the problem of a star coloring. In general case the problems in NP-complete. We establish the star chromatic number for splitting graph of complete and complete bipartite graphs, as well of paths and cycles. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-29 Hanna Furmańczyk , Kowsalya V , Vernold Vivin J

In this paper, we study a famous discrete dynamical system, the Chip Firing Game, used as a model in physics, economics and computer science. We use order theory and show that the set of reachable states (i.e. the configuration space) of…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Latapy , H. D. Phan
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