How hard is it to predict sandpiles on lattices? A survey

DOI10.3233/FI-2020-1879zbMATH Open1445.37006arXiv1909.12150MaRDI QIDQ5114215FDOQ5114215

Kévin Perrot, Enrico Formenti

Publication date: 21 June 2020

Published in: Fundamenta Informaticae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Since their introduction in the 80s, sandpile models have raised interest for their simple definition and their surprising dynamical properties. In this survey we focus on the computational complexity of the prediction problem, namely, the complexity of knowing, given a finite configuration $c$ and a cell $x$ in $c$, if cell $x$ will eventually become unstable. This is an attempt to formalize the intuitive notion of "behavioral complexity" that one easily observes in simulations. However, despite many efforts and nice results, the original question remains open: how hard is it to predict the two-dimensional sandpile model of Bak, Tang and Wiesenfeld?

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.12150

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zbMATH Keywords

sandpile modelsprediction problembehavioral complexity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Dynamical systems and their relations with probability theory and stochastic processes (37A50) Dynamical aspects of statistical mechanics (37A60) Simulation of dynamical systems (37M05) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Dynamics of disordered systems (random Ising systems, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C44) Complexity of computation (including implicit computational complexity) (03D15)

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