Tropical curves in sandpiles

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2015.11.003zbMATH Open1366.05127arXiv1509.02303OpenAlexW2204560070MaRDI QIDQ512332FDOQ512332

Authors: N. Kalinin, M. Shkolnikov 

Publication date: 24 February 2017

Published in: Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a sandpile model on the set of the lattice points in a large lattice polygon. A small perturbation $psi$ of the maximal stable state $muequiv3$ is obtained by adding extra grains at several points. It appears, that the result $ps{i}^{c}irc$ of the relaxation of $psi$ coincides with $mu$ almost everywhere; the set where $ps{i}^{c}ircemu$ 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 $muequiv3$. Le r'esultat $ps{i}^{c}irc$ de la relaxation est presque partout 'egal `a $mu$. On appelle lieu de d'eviation l'ensemble des points o`u $ps{i}^{c}ircemu$. 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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.02303

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zbMATH Keywords

combinatoricsmathematical physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) (52B05) Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20) Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45)

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