On the Toppling of a Sand Pile

In this paper, we provide the first study of the sand pile model SPM(0) where we assume that all the grains are numbered with a distinct integer.We obtain a lower bound on the number of terminal sand piles by establishing a bijection between a subset of these sand piles and the set of shifted Young...

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Main Authors: Jean-Christophe Novelli, Dominique Rossin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science 2001-01-01
Series:Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
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Online Access:https://dmtcs.episciences.org/2283/pdf