Some statistics about Tropical Sandpile Model

Abstract: Tropical sandpile model (or linearized sandpile model) is the only known continuous geometric model exhibiting self-organised criticality. This model represents the scaling limit behavior of a small perturbation of the maximal stable sandpile state on a big subset of

m a t h b b Z^{2}

. Given a set

P

of points in a compact convex domain

O m e g a s u b s e t m a t h b b R^{2}

this linearized model produces a tropical polynomial

. Here we present some quantitative statistical characteristics of this model and some speculative explanations. Namely, we study the dependence between the number

n

of randomly dropped points

P = p_{1}, d o t s, p_{n} s u b s e t [0, 1]^{2} = O m e g a

and the degree of the tropical polynomial

. We also study the distributions of the coefficients of

and the correlation between them. This paper's main (experimental) result is that the tropical curve

defined by

is a small perturbation of the standard square grid lines. This explains a previously known fact that most of the edges of the tropical curve

are of directions

(1, 0), (0, 1), (1, 1), (- 1, 1)

. The main theoretical result is that

, i.e. the tropical curve in

O m e g a^{c} i r c

with marked points

P

removed, is a tree.

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