Abelian sandpiles: an overview and results on certain transitive graphs

zbMATH Open1266.60158arXiv1106.5358MaRDI QIDQ2906831FDOQ2906831

A. A. Járai

Publication date: 5 September 2012

Published in: Markov Processes and Related Fields (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We review the Majumdar-Dhar bijection between recurrent states of the Abelian sandpile model and spanning trees. We generalize earlier results of Athreya and Jarai on the infinite volume limit of the stationary distribution of the sandpile model on Z^d, d >= 2, to a large class of graphs. This includes: (i) graphs on which the wired spanning forest is connected and has one end; (ii) transitive graphs with volume growth at least c n^5 on which all bounded harmonic functions are constant. We also extend a result of Maes, Redig and Saada on the stationary distribution of sandpiles on infinite regular trees, to arbitrary exhaustions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.5358

zbMATH Keywords

burning algorithmabelian sandpilesuniform spanning foresttransitive graphinfinite volume limitbounded harmonic function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

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• Essential enhancements in abelian networks: continuity and uniform strict monotonicity
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