Chip-Firing and Fractional Bases

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Authors Matvey Borodin, Hannah Han, Kaylee Ji, Tanya Khovanova, Alexander Peng, David Sun, Isabel Tu, Jason Yang, William Yang, Kevin Zhang, Kevin Zhao

Publication date 25 September 2018

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graph theory (05C99)

Abstract: 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 start with $n$ chips at the origin.

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