Growth rates and explosions in sandpiles

DOI10.1007/S10955-009-9899-6zbMATH Open1186.82043arXiv0901.3805OpenAlexW3098102571WikidataQ60264683 ScholiaQ60264683MaRDI QIDQ963284FDOQ963284

Authors: Anne Fey, Lionel Levine, Yuval Peres 

Publication date: 19 April 2010

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the abelian sandpile growth model, where n particles are added at the origin on a stable background configuration in Z^d. Any site with at least 2d particles then topples by sending one particle to each neighbor. We find that with constant background height h <= 2d-2, the diameter of the set of sites that topple has order n^{1/d}. This was previously known only for h<d. Our proof uses a strong form of the least action principle for sandpiles, and a novel method of background modification. We can extend this diameter bound to certain backgrounds in which an arbitrarily high fraction of sites have height 2d-1. On the other hand, we show that if the background height 2d-2 is augmented by 1 at an arbitrarily small fraction of sites chosen independently at random, then adding finitely many particles creates an explosion (a sandpile that never stabilizes).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.3805

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zbMATH Keywords

dimensional reductiondiscrete Laplacianbootstrap percolationgrowth modelleast action principleAbelian sandpile

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Percolation (82B43)

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