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We study the directed Abelian sandpile model on a square lattice, with $K$ downward neighbors per site, $K > 2$. The $K=3$ case is solved exactly, which extends the earlier known solution for the $K=2$ case. For $K>2$, the avalanche…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-13 Deepak Dhar , Gunnar Pruessner , Paul Expert , Kim Christensen , Nicky Zachariou

We provide a comprehensive view on the role of Abelian symmetry and stochasticity in the universality class of directed sandpile models, in context of the underlying spatial correlations of metastable patterns and scars. It is argued that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-18 Hang-Hyun Jo , Meesoon Ha

We perform large scale numerical simulations of a directed version of the two-state stochastic sandpile model. Numerical results show that this stochastic model defines a new universality class with respect to the Abelian directed sandpile.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Romualdo Pastor-Satorras , Alessandro Vespignani

We use techniques from the theory of electrical networks to give nearly tight bounds for the transience class of the Abelian sandpile model on the two-dimensional grid up to polylogarithmic factors. The Abelian sandpile model is a discrete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-11 David Durfee , Matthew Fahrbach , Yu Gao , Tao Xiao

The critical group of an abelian network is a finite abelian group that governs the behavior of the network on large inputs. It generalizes the sandpile group of a graph. We show that the critical group of an irreducible abelian network…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Benjamin Bond , Lionel Levine

We insert some asymmetries in the continuous Abelian sandpile models, such as directedness and ellipticity. We analyze probability distribution of different heights and also find the field theory corresponding to the models. Also we find…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Azimi-Tafreshi , H. Dashti-Naserabadi , S. Moghimi-Araghi

We investigate a set of directed sandpile models on the Apollonian network, which are inspired on the work by Dhar and Ramaswamy (PRL \textbf{63}, 1659 (1989)) for Euclidian lattices. They are characterized by a single parameter $q$, that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 André P. Vieira , José S. Andrade , Hans J. Herrmann , Roberto F. S. Andrade

We study sandpile models with stochastic toppling rules and having sticky grains so that with a non-zero probability no toppling occurs, even if the local height of pile exceeds the threshold value. Dissipation is introduced by adding a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. K. Mohanty , Deepak Dhar

We introduce a family of abelian sandpile models with two parameters $n, m \in {\bf N}$ defined on finite lattices on $d$-dimensional torus. Sites with $2dn+m$ or more grains of sand are unstable and topple, and in each toppling $m$ grains…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Makoto Katori

We study the abelian sandpile model on a random binary tree. Using a transfer matrix approach introduced by Dhar & Majumdar, we prove exponential decay of correlations, and in a small supercritical region (i.e., where the branching process…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Frank Redig , Ellen Saada , Wioletta Ruszel

We show that in a broad class of directed abelian sandpile models that had been expected to have the same exponents as the Dhar-Ramaswamy model, the avalanche exponent depends upon the details of the interaction, calling into question the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Rick Tully , George Reiter

This survey is an extended version of lectures given at the Cornell Probability Summer School 2013. The fundamental facts about the Abelian sandpile model on a finite graph and its connections to related models are presented. We discuss…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-13 Antal A. Járai

A popular theory of self-organized criticality relates the critical behavior of driven dissipative systems to that of systems with conservation. In particular, this theory predicts that the stationary density of the abelian sandpile model…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-09-22 Anne Fey , Lionel Levine , David B. Wilson

We study the steady state of the abelian sandpile models with stochastic toppling rules. The particle addition operators commute with each other, but in general these operators need not be diagonalizable. We use their abelian algebra to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-01 Tridib Sadhu , Deepak Dhar

The Abelian Sandpile Model is a cellular automaton whose discrete dynamics reaches an out-of-equilibrium steady state resembling avalanches in piles of sand. The fundamental moves defining the dynamics are encoded by the toppling rules. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-09-25 Sergio Caracciolo , Guglielmo Paoletti , Andrea Sportiello

Let $\Lambda$ be a finite abelian group. A dynamical system with transformation group $\Lambda$ is a triple $(A,\Lambda,\alpha)$, consisting of a unital locally convex algebra $A$, the finite abelian group $\Lambda$ and a group homomorphism…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Stefan Wagner

The paper contributes to building algebraic foundations of self-organized criticality answering a previously unsolved question about the limiting structure of the extended sandpile group as well as relating it to another limit at the level…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Mikhail Shkolnikov

We prove the dimensional reduction conjecture of Fey, Levine, and Peres (2010) on the hypercube. The proof shows that dimensional reduction, symmetry, and regularity of the Abelian sandpile persist during the parallel toppling process. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Ahmed Bou-Rabee

The sandpile group of a graph is a well-studied object that combines ideas from algebraic graph theory, group theory, dynamical systems, and statistical physics. A graph's sandpile group is part of a larger algebraic structure on the graph,…

Sandpiles form one of the largest class of models displaying a critical stationary state. Despite a few decades of research, a comprehensive and systematic rigorous characterisation of their spatial and, even more, time dependent properties…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Valentin Lallemant