Natural Measures on Polyominoes Induced by the Abelian Sandpile Model

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contents We introduce a natural Boltzmann measure over polyominoes induced by boundary avalanches in the Abelian Sandpile Model. Through the study of a suitable associated process, we give an argument suggesting that the probability distribution of the avalnche sizes has a power-law decay with exponent 3/2, in contrast with the present understanding of bulk avalanches in the model (which has some exponent between 1 and 5/4), and to the ordinary generating function of polyominoes (which is conjectured to have a logarithmic singularity, i.e. exponent 1). We provide some numerical evidence for our claims, and evaluate some other statistical observables on our process, most notably the density of triple points.
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spellingShingle Natural Measures on Polyominoes Induced by the Abelian Sandpile Model
Sportiello, Andrea
Discrete Mathematics
G.2.1; G.3
We introduce a natural Boltzmann measure over polyominoes induced by boundary avalanches in the Abelian Sandpile Model. Through the study of a suitable associated process, we give an argument suggesting that the probability distribution of the avalnche sizes has a power-law decay with exponent 3/2, in contrast with the present understanding of bulk avalanches in the model (which has some exponent between 1 and 5/4), and to the ordinary generating function of polyominoes (which is conjectured to have a logarithmic singularity, i.e. exponent 1). We provide some numerical evidence for our claims, and evaluate some other statistical observables on our process, most notably the density of triple points.
title Natural Measures on Polyominoes Induced by the Abelian Sandpile Model
topic Discrete Mathematics
G.2.1; G.3
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16418