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Chip-Firing and Rotor-Routing on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ and on Trees

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The sandpile group of a graph $G$ is an abelian group whose order is the number of spanning trees of $G$. We find the decomposition of the sandpile group into cyclic subgroups when $G$ is a regular tree with the leaves are collapsed to a single vertex. This result can be used to understand the behavior of the rotor-router model, a deterministic analogue of random walk studied first by physicists and more recently rediscovered by combinatorialists. Several years ago, Jim Propp simulated a simple process called rotor-router aggregation and found that it produces a near perfect disk in the integer lattice $\mathbb{Z}^2$. We prove that this shape is close to circular, although it remains a challenge to explain the near perfect circularity produced by simulations. In the regular tree, we use the sandpile group to prove that rotor-router aggregation started from an acyclic initial condition yields a perfect ball.
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hal-01185153 , version 1 (19-08-2015)

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Itamar Landau, Lionel Levine, Yuval Peres. Chip-Firing and Rotor-Routing on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ and on Trees. 20th Annual International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2008), 2008, Viña del Mar, Chile. pp.587-598, ⟨10.46298/dmtcs.3618⟩. ⟨hal-01185153⟩

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