Some statistics about tropical sandpile model
Tropical sandpile model is the only currently known mathematical model demonstrating self-organized criticality. The prototype of this phenomenon was originally provided by the classical sandpile model defined on a square portion of the two-dimensional lattice. One of the features of self-organized criticality is that it implies scale transcendence formally manifested by scaling limit theorems in the case of discrete models. \N\NThere are several proven scaling limit theorems and more of such which are still (very plausible) conjectures. One such result, established by Kalinin and Shkolikov, is the convergence of the classical sandpile model in the regime of small perturbations of the maximal stable state when the lattice mesh tends to zero and the positions of perturbations as well as the shape of the underlying domain are fixed. The situation at the zero mesh limit is that a state now is described by a tropical curve (being the avatars of the deviation of the state from the maximum) and a finite collection of points (being the positions where extra grains are added) in the domain. The stability condition is that the curve passes through all of these points, and for a non-stable state the relaxation function is defined in terms of iteration of idempotent operators $G_p$, the continuous counterparts of adding a grain at $p$ relaxing and removing the grain from $p$. It is yet unknown if the tropical relaxation terminates after a finite number of steps, however, it is true that the process converges and the result doesn't depend on a particular order of applying the idempotent point operators. An instance, where the finiteness property trivially holds is when the underlying domain is a lattice polygon and the perturbation points have integer coordinates. \N\NThis is the setup for the experiments of the article by Kalinin and Prieto, where all the perturbation points are fractions with a fixed denominator and the domain is a standard square. First, they study the behavior of the degree of a tropical polynomial defining a tropical curve in the relaxation of perturbation in $n$ points and state a concentration of measure type conjecture. Second, they study the distribution of the coefficient of such a tropical polynomial and observe an identity for the mean values. Third, the previously observed phenomenon for the slopes of the tropical curve on a square is confirmed and linked to the fact that the resulting curves are perturbations of a square grid. As a theoretical result, it is shown that the genus of the tropical curve arising from a generic $n$-point perturbation has genus $n$. \N\NThe paper is well-written and should be accessible to a vast variety of researchers in combinatorics, geometry, probability, and (mathematical) physics. Being certainly not a definitive treatment of the subject it rather opens several doors for a future numerical and analytic exploration, a concrete direction that looks particularly promising is the replacement of the square domain by a more general one, starting, perhaps with lattice polygons which could provide insights to integer affine geometry due to inherent modular invariance of the tropical sandpile model.
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